CHC @ CIN
Home plate: John Libka
“Nothing that'll trend, and on this beat that's a compliment.”
What this shows — how John Libka called the 132 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 124 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
Alex Bregman vs Nick Lodolo - 2-0.39▲3 · 2-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Alex Bregman vs Nick Lodolo - 3+0.23▲8 · 0-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Michael Busch vs Pierce Johnson
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
4 pitches went to the robots · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Tyler Stephenson — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Eugenio Suárez — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Alex Bregman — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4Tyler Stephenson — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.