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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-12

WSH @ CIN

Home plate: Mike Muchlinski

“Down the middle. Both dugouts had the same zone.”

B+
Umpire Grade
93.8% accurate
0.3
Run Favor
runs, WSH
4
ABS Overturns
of 6 reviewed

What this shows — how Mike Muchlinski called the 194 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 182 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: CJ Abrams — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Elly De La Cruz — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Matt McLain — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Keibert Ruiz — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: Keibert Ruiz — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).5Challenge 6: Nathaniel Lowe — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).6
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.69▲7 · 3-2 strike called ball
    Jacob Young vs Connor Phillips
  2. 2+0.39▼3 · 2-2 strike called ball
    TJ Friedl vs Miles Mikolas
  3. 3+0.30▲3 · 3-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
    CJ Abrams vs Brady Singer

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

6 pitches went to the robots · 4 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1CJ Abrams — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  2. 2Elly De La Cruz — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  3. 3Matt McLain — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  4. 4Keibert Ruiz — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  5. 5Keibert Ruiz — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  6. 6Nathaniel Lowe — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.