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, or, on a pitch the ABS (Automated Ball-Strike System) reviewed on a challenge, against its ruling. 140 were right. Below, only the misses are plotted, alongside every challenged pitch.
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). Where the two disagree, the umpire is graded on the ABS ruling.