HOU @ LAA
Home plate: Nestor Ceja
“Two dugouts, and only one of them smiling.”
What this shows — how Nestor Ceja called the 137 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 120 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▲5 · 2-2 strike called ball
Yordan Alvarez vs Reid Detmers - 2+0.39▼6 · 2-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Jo Adell vs Enyel De Los Santos - 3+0.28▲1 · 1-2 strike called ball
Christian Walker vs Reid Detmers
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
3 pitches went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Logan O'Hoppe — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Christian Vázquez — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Logan O'Hoppe — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.