TB @ STL
Home plate: Nestor Ceja
“A steady night's work behind the plate.”
What this shows — how Nestor Ceja called the 167 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 158 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▲5 · 3-2 strike called ball· challenged
Chandler Simpson vs Justin Bruihl - 2+0.39▼7 · 2-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Victor Scott II vs Garrett Cleavinger - 3+0.23▲8 · 0-2 strike called ball
Jonathan Aranda vs Matt Pushard
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
3 pitches went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Hunter Feduccia — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Pedro Pagés — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Nick Fortes — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.