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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-03-28

KC @ ATL

Home plate: Mike Muchlinski

“Called a fair game and let the players decide it.”

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Umpire Grade
95.5% accurate
0.3
Run Favor
runs, KC
1
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed

What this shows — how Mike Muchlinski called the 133 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 127 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

Challenge 1: Drake Baldwin — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Ronald Acuña Jr. — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Salvador Perez — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.23▲1 · 0-2 strike called ball· challenged
    Vinnie Pasquantino vs Reynaldo López
  2. 2-0.13▼2 · 1-0 ball called strike
    Ozzie Albies vs Michael Wacha
  3. 3-0.13▲8 · 1-0 ball called strike
    Vinnie Pasquantino vs Aaron Bummer

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 · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Drake Baldwin — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2Ronald Acuña Jr. — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  3. 3Salvador Perez — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.