CHC @ TEX
Home plate: James Hoye
“Textbook top to bottom — a quiet masterclass.”
What this shows — how James Hoye called the 158 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 151 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▲9 · 3-1 ball called strike
Michael Conforto vs Gavin Collyer - 2+0.28▲3 · 1-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Seiya Suzuki vs Jack Leiter - 3+0.20▲1 · 2-1 strike called ball
Ian Happ vs Jack Leiter
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.
- 1Ian Happ — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Kyle Higashioka — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
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.