LAA @ SEA
Home plate: Nestor Ceja
“The kind of night where the umpire is the least of the story.”
What this shows — how Nestor Ceja called the 149 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 142 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
- 1-0.69▼6 · 3-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Cal Raleigh vs Chase Silseth - 2+0.39▼7 · 2-2 strike called ball
Weston Wilson vs Brent Suter - 3+0.28▼6 · 1-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Colt Emerson vs Chase Silseth
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.
- 1Josh Naylor — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Logan O'Hoppe — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Cal Raleigh — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4Logan O'Hoppe — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 5Wade Meckler — 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.