MIL @ STL
Home plate: Mike Muchlinski
“Down the middle. Both dugouts had the same zone.”
What this shows — how Mike Muchlinski called the 178 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 165 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
- 1-0.20▼1 · 2-1 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Alec Burleson vs Brandon Sproat - 2+0.20▼1 · 2-1 strike called ball
Jordan Walker vs Brandon Sproat - 3-0.20▼8 · 2-1 ball called strike
Iván Herrera vs Trevor Megill
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 · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Alec Burleson — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2William Contreras — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Iván Herrera — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.