WSH @ ATH
Home plate: John Libka
“Reliable as a Tuesday: no complaints, no headlines.”
What this shows — how John Libka called the 181 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 169 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+0.69▲6 · 3-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Harry Ford vs Yunior Tur - 2+0.69▼7 · 3-2 strike called ball
Donovan Walton vs Riley Cornelio - 3+0.39▲6 · 2-2 strike called ball
Jacob Young vs Justin Sterner
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
6 pitches went to the robots · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Harry Ford — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Shea Langeliers — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Henry Bolte — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 4Shea Langeliers — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 5Jacob Wilson — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 6Harry Ford — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 6 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.