TEX @ LAA
Home plate: John Libka
“A steady night's work behind the plate.”
What this shows — how John Libka called the 135 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 126 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
- 1-0.30▼5 · 3-1 ball called strike
Adam Frazier vs MacKenzie Gore - 2-0.19▲4 · 2-0 ball called strike
Justin Foscue vs Reid Detmers - 3+0.13▼3 · 1-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Zach Neto vs MacKenzie Gore
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
1 pitch went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 0 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Danny Jansen — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 1 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.