“The kind of night where the umpire is the least of the story.”
What this shows — how Jim Wolf called the 160 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 153 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
Yordan Alvarez vs Robbie Ray - 2+0.20▼4 · 2-1 strike called ball
Luis Campusano vs Ronel Blanco - 3+0.13▼3 · 1-0 strike called ball
Fernando Tatis Jr. vs Ronel Blanco
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.
- 1Yainer Diaz — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Luis Campusano — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Cam Smith — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 4Luis Campusano — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
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.