TEX @ ATH
Home plate: Mike Muchlinski
“An honest evening's grade: nothing loud, nothing missed by much.”
What this shows — how Mike Muchlinski called the 143 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 134 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
- 1-0.13▲1 · 1-0 ball called strike
Kyle Higashioka vs Luis Severino - 2+0.13▼3 · 1-0 strike called ball
Carlos Cortes vs Nathan Eovaldi - 3+0.13▼5 · 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 the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Nick Kurtz — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Shea Langeliers — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Austin Wynns — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.