ATH @ SEA
Home plate: John Libka
“The corners were friendlier in one direction tonight.”
What this shows — how John Libka called the 127 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone, or, on a pitch the ABS (Automated Ball-Strike System) reviewed on a challenge, against its ruling. 115 were right. Below, only the misses are plotted, alongside every challenged pitch.
The zone, as he called it
* Graded on the ABS ruling. ABS measures its own zone, set by the batter’s height and taken at the middle of the plate, and our tracking puts this pitch on the other side of the line.
The calls that moved the game
- 1+0.39▼2 · 2-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Cal Raleigh vs Jeffrey Springs - 2+0.28▲1 · 1-2 strike called ball
Henry Bolte vs George Kirby - 3+0.23▼3 · 0-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Cole Young vs Jeffrey Springs
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 · 4 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Jonah Heim — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Jonah Heim — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Cal Raleigh — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 4Jonah Heim — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 5Jonah Heim — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone). Where the two disagree, the umpire is graded on the ABS ruling.