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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-04-22

MIL @ DET

Home plate: Mike Muchlinski

“The zone kept its promises.”

B+
Umpire Grade
93.4% accurate
0.3
Run Favor
runs, DET
0
ABS Overturns
of 1 reviewed

What this shows — how Mike Muchlinski called the 166 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 155 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: Sal Frelick — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).1
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.28▲1 · 1-2 strike called ball
    Brice Turang vs Casey Mize
  2. 2-0.28▲3 · 1-2 ball called strike
    Jake Bauers vs Casey Mize
  3. 3+0.20▼2 · 2-1 strike called ball
    Spencer Torkelson vs DL Hall

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

1 pitch went to the robots · 0 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Sal Frelick — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

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