ATH @ LAA
Home plate: Nestor Ceja
“An honest evening's grade: nothing loud, nothing missed by much.”
What this shows — how Nestor Ceja called the 132 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 123 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+0.13▼5 · 1-1 strike called ball
Josh Lowe vs J.T. Ginn - 2+0.13▲1 · 1-0 strike called ball
Carlos Cortes vs Walbert Ureña - 3-0.13▼6 · 1-0 ball called strike
Mike Trout vs J.T. Ginn
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.
- 1Logan O'Hoppe — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Brent Rooker — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Zach Neto — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
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.