LAD @ DET
Home plate: Nestor Ceja
“Called a fair game and let the players decide it.”
What this shows — how Nestor Ceja called the 156 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 148 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+0.19▼8 · 2-0 strike called ball
Hao-Yu Lee vs Brock Stewart - 2+0.13▲7 · 1-1 strike called ball
Freddie Freeman vs Tyler Holton - 3-0.13▼2 · 1-0 ball called strike
Spencer Torkelson vs Tarik Skubal
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
2 pitches went to the robots · 0 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Dillon Dingler — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Spencer Torkelson — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 2 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.