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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-17

SD @ LAA

Home plate: Mike Muchlinski

“Nothing that'll trend, and on this beat that's a compliment.”

B
Umpire Grade
92.2% accurate
0.2
Run Favor
runs, LAA
3
ABS Overturns
of 7 reviewed

What this shows — how Mike Muchlinski called the 180 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 166 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: Logan O'Hoppe — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Gavin Sheets — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Luis Campusano — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Logan O'Hoppe — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).4Challenge 5: Logan O'Hoppe — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).5Challenge 6: Luis Campusano — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).6Challenge 7: Luis Campusano — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).7
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.21▲4 · 3-0 ball called strike
    Gavin Sheets vs José Soriano
  2. 2-0.21▲6 · 3-0 ball called strike
    Xander Bogaerts vs José Soriano
  3. 3-0.20▼7 · 2-1 ball called strike
    Nolan Schanuel vs Bradgley Rodriguez

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

7 pitches went to the robots · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 4 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Logan O'Hoppe — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  2. 2Gavin Sheets — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  3. 3Luis Campusano — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  4. 4Logan O'Hoppe — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  5. 5Logan O'Hoppe — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  6. 6Luis Campusano — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  7. 7Luis Campusano — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 7 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.