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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-16

PHI @ PIT

Home plate: Mike Muchlinski

“Called it the way the rulebook drew it up.”

A+
Umpire Grade
98.1% accurate
0.1
Run Favor
runs, PIT
0
ABS Overturns
of 2 reviewed

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

Challenge 1: Henry Davis — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Bryce Harper — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).2
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.10▲4 · 0-1 strike called ball· challenged
    J.T. Realmuto vs Evan Sisk
  2. 2-0.09▲4 · 0-0 ball called strike
    J.T. Realmuto vs Evan Sisk
  3. 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 Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Henry Davis — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 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.