Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-07-05
MIL @ AZ
Home plate: Nestor Ceja
“The zone kept its promises.”
Umpire Grade
92.5% accurate
Run Favor
runs, AZ
ABS Overturns
of 5 reviewed
What this shows — how Nestor Ceja called the 174 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 161 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
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld
The calls that moved the game
- 1+0.39▼6 · 2-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Pavin Smith vs Drew Rom - 2+0.39▼9 · 2-2 strike called ball· challenged
Ketel Marte vs Trevor Megill - 3-0.28▲4 · 1-2 ball called strike
Andrew Vaughn vs Eduardo Rodriguez
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.
- 1Gary Sánchez — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Gary Sánchez — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Gary Sánchez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 4Ketel Marte — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 5Gary Sánchez — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.