“The kind of night where the umpire is the least of the story.”
What this shows — how Laz Diaz called the 145 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 138 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
Alex Freeland vs Chase Shugart - 2-0.23▲4 · 0-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Dalton Rushing vs Cristopher Sánchez - 3+0.13▲1 · 1-0 strike called ball
Freddie Freeman vs Cristopher Sánchez
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 · 4 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 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 ball: overturned.
- 2Dalton Rushing — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Kyle Schwarber — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 4Andy Pages — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 5J.T. Realmuto — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.