PHI @ ATL
Home plate: Nestor Ceja
“Down the middle. Both dugouts had the same zone.”
What this shows — how Nestor Ceja called the 148 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 140 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▼4 · 2-2 strike called ball
Mike Yastrzemski vs Aaron Nola - 2-0.21▲4 · 3-0 ball called strike
Alec Bohm vs Chris Sale - 3+0.13▼8 · 1-0 strike called ball
Ozzie Albies vs Alex McFarlane
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 · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Sean Murphy — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2J.T. Realmuto — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
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.