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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-05-30

SF @ COL

Home plate: Mike Muchlinski

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

A-
Umpire Grade
94.8% accurate
0.1
Run Favor
runs, SF
2
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed

What this shows — how Mike Muchlinski called the 154 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 146 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: Casey Schmitt — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Eric Haase — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Bryce Eldridge — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.30▼1 · 3-1 ball called strike
    Edouard Julien vs Adrian Houser
  2. 2+0.13▼5 · 1-1 strike called ball
    Sterlin Thompson vs Sam Hentges
  3. 3+0.13▼6 · 1-1 strike called ball
    Willi Castro vs JT Brubaker

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 Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Casey Schmitt — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  2. 2Eric Haase — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Bryce Eldridge — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.