AZ @ CHC
Home plate: Mike Muchlinski
“Borderline went to the battery all night.”
What this shows — how Mike Muchlinski called the 171 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 159 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
- 1-0.30▼3 · 3-1 ball called strike· challenged
Ian Happ vs Zac Gallen - 2-0.28▼6 · 1-2 ball called strike
Moisés Ballesteros vs Brandyn Garcia - 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 the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Ian Happ — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Gabriel Moreno — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Ketel Marte — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
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.