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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-13

TEX @ ATH

Home plate: Mike Muchlinski

“An honest evening's grade: nothing loud, nothing missed by much.”

A-
Umpire Grade
94.4% accurate
0.6
Run Favor
runs, ATH
3
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed

What this shows — how Mike Muchlinski called the 143 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 135 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: Nick Kurtz — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Shea Langeliers — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Austin Wynns — 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+0.13▼4 · 1-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
    Nick Kurtz vs Nathan Eovaldi
  2. 2-0.13▲1 · 1-0 ball called strike
    Kyle Higashioka vs Luis Severino
  3. 3+0.13▼3 · 1-0 strike called ball
    Carlos Cortes vs Nathan Eovaldi

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 · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 0 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Nick Kurtz — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  2. 2Shea Langeliers — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Austin Wynns — 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.