Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-08-15
WSH @ NYM
Home plate: Nestor Ceja
“The zone stretched its legs.”
Umpire Grade
91.4% accurate
Run Favor
runs, NYM
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed
What this shows — how Nestor Ceja called the 163 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 149 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
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld
The calls that moved the game
- 1-0.39▼3 · 2-2 ball called strike
Bo Bichette vs Will Dion - 2+0.28▼1 · 1-2 strike called ball
Bo Bichette vs Brad Lord - 3+0.20▼5 · 2-1 strike called ball
A.J. Ewing vs Will Dion
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 · 0 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Bo Bichette — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Harry Ford — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Jefry Yan — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.