SD @ KC
Home plate: Nestor Ceja
“One side pitched to a slightly bigger plate.”
What this shows — how Nestor Ceja called the 157 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 146 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▲2 · 3-2 ball called strike
Gavin Sheets vs Seth Lugo - 2+0.28▼2 · 1-2 strike called ball
Isaac Collins vs Michael King - 3+0.23▼4 · 0-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Nick Loftin vs Michael King
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 · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Luis Campusano — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Luis Campusano — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Luis Campusano — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 4Carter Jensen — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 5Isaac Collins — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 5 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.