“Both benches went home with nothing to say — the rarest kind of night.”
What this shows — how Alex Tosi called the 200 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 192 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▲7 · 3-2 ball called strike
Steven Kwan vs Bryan Hudson - 2+0.69▲9 · 3-2 strike called ball
Angel Genao vs Trevor Richards - 3-0.21▲2 · 3-0 ball called strike
Patrick Bailey vs Hagen Smith
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
2 pitches went to the robots · 0 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Munetaka Murakami — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Edgar Quero — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 2 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.