LAD @ ATL
Home plate: James Hoye
“Two dugouts, and only one of them smiling.”
What this shows — how James Hoye called the 153 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 142 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▼6 · 3-2 ball called strike
Matt Olson vs Yoshinobu Yamamoto - 2+0.69▲8 · 3-2 strike called ball
Shohei Ohtani vs Brent Suter - 3+0.23▲8 · 0-2 strike called ball
Kyle Tucker vs Brent Suter
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
2 pitches went to the robots · 0 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Ronald Acuña Jr. — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Shohei Ohtani — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 2 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.