LAD @ STL
Home plate: Nestor Ceja
“The kind of night where the umpire is the least of the story.”
What this shows — how Nestor Ceja called the 156 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 146 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+0.23▲6 · 0-2 strike called ball
Freddie Freeman vs Michael McGreevy - 2+0.20▲7 · 2-1 strike called ball
Max Muncy vs Ryne Stanek - 3+0.20▲8 · 2-1 strike called ball
Shohei Ohtani vs JoJo Romero
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 · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Iván Herrera — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Iván Herrera — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: 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.