“If umpiring had a highlight reel, this wouldn't make it. That's the compliment.”
What this shows — how Alex Tosi called the 161 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 157 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▲2 · 3-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Taylor Ward vs Jeffrey Springs - 2+0.13▼2 · 1-1 strike called ball· challenged
Jonah Heim vs George Kirby - 3+0.10▼9 · 0-1 strike called ball
Jeff McNeil vs Carlos Vargas
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 · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Jonah Heim — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2George Kirby — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Lawrence Butler — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 4Zack Gelof — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 5Lazaro Montes — 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.