CLE @ KC
Home plate: John Libka
“A workmanlike night — nothing to frame, nothing to fix.”
What this shows — how John Libka called the 154 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 147 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
- 1-0.20▲5 · 2-1 ball called strike
Steven Kwan vs Michael Wacha - 2-0.19▼8 · 2-0 ball called strike
Salvador Perez vs Craig Yoho - 3-0.19▲9 · 2-0 ball called strike
Patrick Bailey vs Alex Lange
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
2 pitches went to the robots · 0 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Patrick Bailey — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Carter Jensen — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 2 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.