NYY @ WSH
Home plate: Nestor Ceja
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What this shows — how Nestor Ceja called the 161 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 152 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+0.30▲5 · 3-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Austin Wells vs Zack Littell - 2+0.28▲1 · 1-2 strike called ball
Paul Goldschmidt vs Carson Palmquist - 3-0.13▼8 · 1-1 ball called strike
Jacob Young vs David Bednar
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.
- 1Keibert Ruiz — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Austin Wells — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Austin Wells — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Keibert Ruiz — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 5Austin Wells — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: 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.