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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-01

AZ @ CHC

Home plate: Mike Muchlinski

“Borderline went to the battery all night.”

B+
Umpire Grade
93.6% accurate
0.9
Run Favor
runs, AZ
1
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed

What this shows — how Mike Muchlinski called the 171 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 160 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: Ian Happ — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Gabriel Moreno — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Ketel Marte — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).3
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.30▼3 · 3-1 ball called strike· challenged
    Ian Happ vs Zac Gallen
  2. 2-0.28▼6 · 1-2 ball called strike
    Moisés Ballesteros vs Brandyn Garcia
  3. 3-0.21▼1 · 3-0 ball called strike
    Ian Happ vs Zac Gallen

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. 1Ian Happ — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  2. 2Gabriel Moreno — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Ketel Marte — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.

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.