ATH @ NYM
Home plate: James Hoye
“A pitcher's-nightmare zone — you had to paint it to get it.”
What this shows — how James Hoye called the 172 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 156 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+0.23▲7 · 0-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Max Muncy vs Craig Kimbrel - 2-0.21▼3 · 3-0 ball called strike
Bo Bichette vs Jacob Lopez - 3-0.21▲8 · 3-0 ball called strike
Shea Langeliers vs Luke Weaver
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.
- 1Max Muncy — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Mark Vientos — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Shea Langeliers — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 4Francisco Alvarez — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.