“An honest evening's grade: nothing loud, nothing missed by much.”
What this shows — how Alex Tosi called the 135 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 131 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+0.30▼4 · 3-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Ben Rice vs Hunter Dobbins - 2-0.21▼4 · 3-0 ball called strike
Ben Rice vs Hunter Dobbins - 3+0.20▲5 · 2-1 strike called ball
Masyn Winn vs Ryan Weathers
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 · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Austin Wells — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Pedro Pagés — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Ben Rice — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Heliot Ramos — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 5Nathan Church — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.