TB @ NYY
Home plate: John Libka
“Nothing off the plate, and not much on the black either.”
What this shows — how John Libka called the 153 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 140 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+0.28▼9 · 1-2 strike called ball
Heliot Ramos vs Bryan Baker - 2-0.20▲3 · 2-1 ball called strike
Junior Caminero vs Max Fried - 3+0.19▼1 · 2-0 strike called ball
Ben Rice vs Drew Rasmussen
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 · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Austin Wells — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Austin Wells — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Nick Fortes — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 4Cedric Mullins — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.