CWS @ NYY
Home plate: Mike Muchlinski
“Pitchers found a little extra real estate.”
What this shows — how Mike Muchlinski called the 136 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 119 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+0.69▼3 · 3-2 strike called ball
Ben Rice vs Davis Martin - 2+0.28▼3 · 1-2 strike called ball
J.C. Escarra vs Davis Martin - 3-0.28▼3 · 1-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Ben Rice vs Davis Martin
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.
- 1Ben Rice — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Drew Romo — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3J.C. Escarra — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: 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.