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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-10

SEA @ BAL

Home plate: Mike Muchlinski

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A-
Umpire Grade
94.5% accurate
0.6
Run Favor
runs, SEA
0
ABS Overturns
of 2 reviewed

What this shows — how Mike Muchlinski called the 145 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 137 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: Sam Huff — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Mitch Garver — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).2
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.21▼8 · 3-0 ball called strike
    Pete Alonso vs Domingo Gonzalez
  2. 2-0.20▼4 · 2-1 ball called strike
    Tyler O'Neill vs George Kirby
  3. 3+0.10▲7 · 0-1 strike called ball· challenged
    Mitch Garver vs Brandon Young

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. 1Sam Huff — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  2. 2Mitch Garver — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: 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.