WSH @ ATH
Home plate: James Hoye
“The kind of night where the umpire is the least of the story.”
What this shows — how James Hoye called the 157 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 149 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▲5 · 2-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Jorbit Vivas vs J.T. Ginn - 2-0.19▼8 · 2-0 ball called strike
Joshua Kuroda-Grauer vs Jorbit Vivas - 3+0.13▼1 · 1-0 strike called ball
Donovan Walton vs Zack Littell
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
3 pitches went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Lawrence Butler — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Jorbit Vivas — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Jonah Heim — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.