SF @ COL
Home plate: Mike Muchlinski
“Down the middle. Both dugouts had the same zone.”
What this shows — how Mike Muchlinski called the 154 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 144 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
- 1-0.30▼1 · 3-1 ball called strike
Edouard Julien vs Adrian Houser - 2+0.30▼4 · 3-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Troy Johnston vs Sam Hentges - 3+0.13▼5 · 1-1 strike called ball
Sterlin Thompson vs Sam Hentges
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.
- 1Casey Schmitt — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Eric Haase — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Bryce Eldridge — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
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.