BAL @ LAA
Home plate: John Libka
“Pitchers earned every strike the hard way.”
What this shows — how John Libka called the 149 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 137 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▲1 · 2-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Gunnar Henderson vs Sam Aldegheri - 2+0.39▼2 · 2-2 strike called ball
Denzer Guzman vs Kyle Bradish - 3+0.23▲6 · 0-2 strike called ball
Leody Taveras vs José Fermin
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
4 pitches went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Logan O'Hoppe — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Sam Huff — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Logan O'Hoppe — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 4Taylor Ward — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.