CLE @ MIN
Home plate: James Hoye
“The zone kept its promises.”
What this shows — how James Hoye called the 139 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone, or, on a pitch the ABS (Automated Ball-Strike System) reviewed on a challenge, against its ruling. 129 were right. Below, only the misses are plotted, alongside every challenged pitch.
The zone, as he called it
* Graded on the ABS ruling. ABS measures its own zone, set by the batter’s height and taken at the middle of the plate, and our tracking puts this pitch on the other side of the line.
The calls that moved the game
- 1+0.28▼6 · 1-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Austin Martin vs Joey Cantillo - 2-0.23▼2 · 0-2 ball called strike
Kaelen Culpepper vs Daniel Espino - 3-0.19▲2 · 2-0 ball called strike
Jo Adell vs Connor Prielipp
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
7 pitches went to the robots · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 4 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Victor Caratini — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Austin Hedges — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Austin Martin — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4Austin Hedges — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 5Austin Hedges — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 6José Ramírez — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 7Victor Caratini — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 6 of 7 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone). Where the two disagree, the umpire is graded on the ABS ruling.