TOR @ TB
Home plate: James Hoye
“Nothing that'll trend, and on this beat that's a compliment.”
What this shows — how James Hoye called the 152 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 146 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 ball called strike
Jonathan Aranda vs José Soriano - 2-0.19▼4 · 2-0 ball called strike
Ryan Vilade vs José Soriano - 3-0.13▼7 · 1-1 ball called strike· challenged
Taylor Walls vs Matt Waldron
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 · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Alejandro Kirk — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Alejandro Kirk — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Liam Hicks — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Liam Hicks — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 5Taylor Walls — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.