TOR @ TB
Home plate: Nestor Ceja
“A workmanlike night — nothing to frame, nothing to fix.”
What this shows — how Nestor Ceja called the 120 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 114 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+0.28▲8 · 1-2 strike called ball
Kazuma Okamoto vs Bryan Baker - 2-0.19▲6 · 2-0 ball called strike
George Springer vs Shane McClanahan - 3+0.10▲5 · 0-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Davis Schneider vs Shane McClanahan
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
4 pitches went to the robots · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Ernie Clement — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Nick Fortes — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Nick Fortes — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Nick Fortes — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.