PHI @ PIT
Home plate: Mike Muchlinski
“Called it the way the rulebook drew it up.”
What this shows — how Mike Muchlinski called the 158 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
The calls that moved the game
- 1+0.10▲4 · 0-1 strike called ball· challenged
J.T. Realmuto vs Evan Sisk - 2-0.09▲4 · 0-0 ball called strike
J.T. Realmuto vs Evan Sisk - 3-0.09▲8 · 0-0 ball called strike
J.T. Realmuto vs Justin Lawrence
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
2 pitches went to the robots · 0 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Henry Davis — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Bryce Harper — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 2 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.