MIA @ KC
Home plate: Nestor Ceja
“A steady night's work behind the plate.”
What this shows — how Nestor Ceja called the 175 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 167 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+0.28▼5 · 1-2 strike called ball· challenged
Vinnie Pasquantino vs Eury Pérez - 2-0.28▼5 · 1-2 ball called strike
Kyle Isbel vs Cade Gibson - 3+0.23▲2 · 0-2 strike called ball
Esteury Ruiz vs Noah Cameron
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.
- 1Kyle Stowers — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Joe Mack — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Carter Jensen — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Carter Jensen — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
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.