SF @ BOS
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 174 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 168 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+0.69▲3 · 3-2 strike called ball· challenged
Rafael Devers vs Patrick Sandoval - 2-0.28▼3 · 1-2 ball called strike
Wilyer Abreu vs Blade Tidwell - 3-0.19▲1 · 2-0 ball called strike
Bryce Eldridge vs Patrick Sandoval
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.
- 1Adley Rutschman — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Willy Adames — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Adley Rutschman — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4Willson Contreras — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.