TEX @ LAD
Home plate: Nestor Ceja
“You could set a watch by that zone.”
What this shows — how Nestor Ceja called the 157 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 151 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+0.39▼4 · 2-2 strike called ball
Hyeseong Kim vs Jack Leiter - 2+0.39▲8 · 2-2 strike called ball
Sam Haggerty vs Tanner Scott - 3+0.13▲2 · 1-0 strike called ball
Joc Pederson vs Emmet Sheehan
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.
- 1Kyle Higashioka — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Robert Garcia — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Kyle Higashioka — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.