ATL @ PHI
Home plate: James Hoye
“Nothing off the plate, and not much on the black either.”
What this shows — how James Hoye called the 139 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 128 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
- 1-0.39▲3 · 2-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Jorge Mateo vs Cristopher Sánchez - 2-0.28▲3 · 1-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Ronald Acuña Jr. vs Cristopher Sánchez - 3+0.23▲2 · 0-2 strike called ball
Mauricio Dubón 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
5 pitches went to the robots · 4 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Jorge Mateo — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Ronald Acuña Jr. — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Matt Olson — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4Jonah Heim — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 5Rafael Marchán — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.