BAL @ TEX
Home plate: John Libka
“The catcher barely had to sell a thing.”
What this shows — how John Libka called the 111 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 106 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+0.13▼8 · 1-1 strike called ball
Elias Díaz vs Shane Baz - 2+0.10▲2 · 0-1 strike called ball
Leody Taveras vs Nathan Eovaldi - 3+0.09▲7 · 0-0 strike called ball· challenged
Gunnar Henderson vs Robby Ahlstrom
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
2 pitches went to the robots · 0 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Joc Pederson — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Elias Díaz — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 2 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.