COL @ CHC
Home plate: John Libka
“Down the middle. Both dugouts had the same zone.”
What this shows — how John Libka called the 162 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 152 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▼8 · 2-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Nico Hoerner vs Jimmy Herget - 2+0.20▼1 · 2-1 strike called ball
Seiya Suzuki vs Sean Sullivan - 3+0.13▼2 · 1-0 strike called ball
Carson Kelly vs Sean Sullivan
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
3 pitches went to the robots · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Hunter Goodman — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Carson Kelly — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Hunter Goodman — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.