SF @ BOS
Home plate: James Hoye
“A tilt to the evening — the numbers say which way.”
What this shows — how James Hoye called the 174 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 167 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+0.69▲7 · 3-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Drew Gilbert vs Greg Weissert - 3-0.28▼3 · 1-2 ball called strike
Wilyer Abreu vs Blade Tidwell
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 ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Willson Contreras — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
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.