BAL @ LAD
Home plate: Nestor Ceja
“A steady night's work behind the plate.”
What this shows — how Nestor Ceja called the 162 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 154 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
- 1-0.20▲3 · 2-1 ball called strike
Coby Mayo vs Roki Sasaki - 2-0.13▼2 · 1-0 ball called strike
Alex Freeland vs Trey Gibson - 3-0.13▼7 · 1-0 ball called strike
Mookie Betts vs Tyler Wells
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.
- 1Mookie Betts — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Dalton Rushing — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Samuel Basallo — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 4Samuel Basallo — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.