CWS @ SD
Home plate: John Libka
“Called a fair game and let the players decide it.”
What this shows — how John Libka called the 140 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 132 right. Below, only his misses are plotted, alongside every pitch the ABS (Automated Ball-Strike System) reviewed on a challenge.
The zone, as he called it
The calls that moved the game
- 1+0.39▲4 · 2-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Chase Meidroth vs Griffin Canning - 2+0.39▲6 · 2-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Munetaka Murakami vs Adrian Morejon - 3-0.13▼8 · 1-1 ball called strike
Miguel Andujar vs Bryan Hudson
Run impact from the count run-value table: a missed strike three is worth far more than one on 3-0.
ABS — the Automated Ball-Strike System
5 pitches went to the robots · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Drew Romo — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Freddy Fermin — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Freddy Fermin — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Miguel Andujar — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 5Chase Meidroth — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 5 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.