CLE @ TEX
Home plate: Nestor Ceja
“If umpiring had a highlight reel, this wouldn't make it. That's the compliment.”
What this shows — how Nestor Ceja called the 138 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 132 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▼2 · 2-2 strike called ball
Ezequiel Duran vs Parker Messick - 2+0.20▲7 · 2-1 strike called ball
Austin Hedges vs Peyton Gray - 3-0.13▲9 · 1-1 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Stuart Fairchild vs Jacob Latz
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.
- 1José Ramírez — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Stuart Fairchild — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
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.