CHC @ COL
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 144 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 140 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+0.21▼1 · 3-0 strike called ball
Hunter Goodman vs Shota Imanaga - 2+0.13▲4 · 1-1 strike called ball
Alex Bregman vs Michael Lorenzen - 3+0.13▼6 · 1-1 strike called ball
Kyle Karros vs Phil Maton
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 · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Hunter Goodman — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Moisés Ballesteros — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3TJ Rumfield — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 4Michael Conforto — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.