“The kind of night where the umpire is the least of the story.”
What this shows — how Jim Wolf called the 150 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+0.39▲3 · 2-2 strike called ball
Shohei Ohtani vs Jack Kochanowicz - 2+0.23▲2 · 0-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Andy Pages vs Jack Kochanowicz - 3+0.23▲8 · 0-2 strike called ball· challenged
Teoscar Hernández vs Ryan 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 · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Logan O'Hoppe — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Jorge Soler — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Teoscar Hernández — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 4Sebastián Rivero — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
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.