PIT @ STL
Home plate: James Hoye
“The black wasn't in play tonight.”
What this shows — how James Hoye called the 127 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 116 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▼1 · 2-2 strike called ball
JJ Wetherholt vs Braxton Ashcraft - 2+0.23▲6 · 0-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Bryan Reynolds vs Dustin May - 3+0.19▼4 · 2-0 strike called ball
Masyn Winn vs Braxton Ashcraft
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.
- 1Marcell Ozuna — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Braxton Ashcraft — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Iván Herrera — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 4Pedro Pagés — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.