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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-19

BAL @ LAD

Home plate: Nestor Ceja

“A steady night's work behind the plate.”

A-
Umpire Grade
94.4% accurate
0.5
Run Favor
runs, LAD
1
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed

What this shows — how Nestor Ceja called the 162 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 153 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: Mookie Betts — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Dalton Rushing — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Samuel Basallo — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: Samuel Basallo — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).4
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.28▼3 · 1-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
    Mookie Betts vs Trey Gibson
  2. 2-0.20▲3 · 2-1 ball called strike
    Coby Mayo vs Roki Sasaki
  3. 3-0.13▼2 · 1-0 ball called strike
    Alex Freeland vs Trey Gibson

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 Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Mookie Betts — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  2. 2Dalton Rushing — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  3. 3Samuel Basallo — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  4. 4Samuel Basallo — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: 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.