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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-05

CLE @ TEX

Home plate: Nestor Ceja

“If umpiring had a highlight reel, this wouldn't make it. That's the compliment.”

A
Umpire Grade
96.4% accurate
0.1
Run Favor
runs, TEX
1
ABS Overturns
of 2 reviewed

What this shows — how Nestor Ceja called the 138 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 133 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

Challenge 1: José Ramírez — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Stuart Fairchild — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.39▼2 · 2-2 strike called ball
    Ezequiel Duran vs Parker Messick
  2. 2+0.20▲7 · 2-1 strike called ball
    Austin Hedges vs Peyton Gray
  3. 3-0.10▼1 · 0-1 ball called strike
    Wyatt Langford vs Parker Messick

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 Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1José Ramírez — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  2. 2Stuart Fairchild — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 2 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.