“The kind of night where the umpire is the least of the story.”
What this shows — how Alex Tosi called the 132 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 125 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· challenged ✓
Kyle Schwarber vs Chase Dollander - 2-0.39▲2 · 2-2 ball called strike· challenged
J.T. Realmuto vs Jimmy Herget - 3+0.30▼6 · 3-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Hunter Goodman vs Jesús Luzardo
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 · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1J.T. Realmuto — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Ezequiel Tovar — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Brett Sullivan — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Brett Sullivan — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 5Jesús Luzardo — 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.