TB @ LAA
Home plate: Nestor Ceja
“The zone kept to itself — the hitters said thanks.”
What this shows — how Nestor Ceja called the 165 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 148 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▲3 · 1-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Yandy Díaz vs Grayson Rodriguez - 2+0.28▲9 · 1-2 strike called ball
Chandler Simpson vs Ryan Zeferjahn - 3-0.28▼9 · 1-2 ball called strike
Mike Trout vs Bryan Baker
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
5 pitches went to the robots · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Logan Porter — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Hunter Feduccia — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Hunter Feduccia — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Oswald Peraza — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 5Oswald Peraza — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.