BOS @ TOR
Home plate: Nestor Ceja
“Tonight's zone had a rooting interest.”
What this shows — how Nestor Ceja called the 167 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 159 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▲3 · 3-2 strike called ball
Andruw Monasterio vs Dylan Cease - 2+0.30▲8 · 3-1 strike called ball
Jarren Duran vs Braydon Fisher - 3+0.13▲5 · 1-1 strike called ball
Adley Rutschman vs Dylan Cease
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 · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Alejandro Kirk — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Adley Rutschman — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Nick Sogard — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Adley Rutschman — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.