MIA @ HOU
Home plate: John Libka
“Nothing that'll trend, and on this beat that's a compliment.”
What this shows — how John Libka called the 129 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 123 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
Christian Walker vs Calvin Faucher - 2+0.30▲4 · 3-1 strike called ball
Griffin Conine vs Peter Lambert - 3-0.20▲9 · 2-1 ball called strike
Joe Mack vs Bryan Abreu
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.
- 1Kyle Stowers — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Christian Vázquez — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Yainer Diaz — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Christian Vázquez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 5Joe Mack — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.