“Both benches went home with nothing to say — the rarest kind of night.”
What this shows — how Alex Tosi called the 154 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 149 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+0.13▲1 · 1-1 strike called ball
Lawrence Butler vs Seth Lugo - 2+0.13▼7 · 1-1 strike called ball
Bobby Witt Jr. vs Elvis Alvarado - 3-0.09▼4 · 0-0 ball called strike
Salvador Perez vs Jeffrey Springs
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 · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Jonah Heim — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Carter Jensen — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 2 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.