“A busy night for the machines in the truck.”
What this shows — how Alex Tosi called the 130 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 116 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 ball called strike· challenged ✓
TJ Friedl vs Ryan Feltner - 2+0.20▲2 · 2-1 strike called ball
Elly De La Cruz vs Ryan Feltner - 3+0.13▲3 · 1-1 strike called ball
Dane Myers vs Ryan Feltner
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
10 pitches went to the robots · 7 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 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.
- 2Hunter Goodman — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3TJ Friedl — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4Hunter Goodman — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 5Tyler Stephenson — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 6Willi Castro — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 7Tyler Stephenson — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 8Tyler Stephenson — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 9Tyler Freeman — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 10Tyler Freeman — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 10 of 10 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.