Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-03-26
TEX @ PHI
Home plate: James Hoye
“The zone shrank when the pitchers needed it most.”
Umpire Grade
90.3% accurate
Run Favor
runs, TEX
ABS Overturns
of 1 reviewed
What this shows — how James Hoye called the 145 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
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld
The calls that moved the game
- 1+0.69▲8 · 3-2 strike called ball· challenged
Brandon Nimmo vs Zach Pop - 2-0.28▲4 · 1-2 ball called strike
Jake Burger vs Cristopher Sánchez - 3+0.20▲4 · 2-1 strike called ball
Andrew McCutchen vs Cristopher Sánchez
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
1 pitch went to the robots · 0 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.
- 1Zach Pop — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 0 of 1 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.