AZ @ SEA
Home plate: Nestor Ceja
“A workmanlike night — nothing to frame, nothing to fix.”
What this shows — how Nestor Ceja called the 121 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 116 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▲10 · 1-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Adrian Del Castillo vs Luis Castillo - 2+0.13▲2 · 1-1 strike called ball
Aramis Garcia vs Bryce Miller - 3-0.13▲2 · 1-0 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Ryan Waldschmidt vs Bryce Miller
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.
- 1Ryan Waldschmidt — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Ryan Waldschmidt — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Jhonny Pereda — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Adrian Del Castillo — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
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.