CLE @ TB
Home plate: Nestor Ceja
“Not his sharpest evening behind the plate.”
What this shows — how Nestor Ceja called the 125 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 114 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▲8 · 2-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Patrick Bailey vs Ian Seymour - 2-0.30▼6 · 3-1 ball called strike
Ryan Vilade vs Joey Cantillo - 3-0.13▼3 · 1-1 ball called strike
Junior Caminero vs Foster Griffin
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 · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Liam Hicks — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Patrick Bailey — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Steven Kwan — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
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.