COL @ MIL
Home plate: Nestor Ceja
“Nothing that'll trend, and on this beat that's a compliment.”
What this shows — how Nestor Ceja called the 149 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 140 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
- 1-0.39▼7 · 2-2 ball called strike
Jake Bauers vs Tanner Gordon - 2+0.28▲7 · 1-2 strike called ball· challenged
Brett Sullivan vs Chad Patrick - 3-0.23▼7 · 0-2 ball called strike
William Contreras vs Tanner Gordon
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 the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1William Contreras — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Braxton Fulford — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3William Contreras — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 4William Contreras — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.