BAL @ COL
Home plate: John Libka
“Two dugouts, and only one of them smiling.”
What this shows — how John Libka called the 152 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 142 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▲3 · 3-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Jackson Holliday vs Gabriel Hughes - 2+0.20▲6 · 2-1 strike called ball
Samuel Basallo vs Zach Agnos - 3-0.19▼4 · 2-0 ball called strike
Adael Amador vs Kyle Bradish
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 · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Brett Sullivan — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Brett Sullivan — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Christian Encarnacion-Strand — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 4Adael Amador — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 5Gunnar Henderson — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.