ATH @ SEA
Home plate: John Libka
“A small strike zone, generously enforced for the offense.”
What this shows — how John Libka called the 127 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 116 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▼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), not our error.