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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-16

CWS @ NYY

Home plate: Mike Muchlinski

“The corners were friendlier in one direction tonight.”

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Umpire Grade
89.0% accurate
1.3
Run Favor
runs, NYY
2
ABS Overturns
of 3 reviewed

What this shows — how Mike Muchlinski called the 136 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 121 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: Ben Rice — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Drew Romo — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: J.C. Escarra — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1+0.69▼3 · 3-2 strike called ball
    Ben Rice vs Davis Martin
  2. 2+0.28▼3 · 1-2 strike called ball
    J.C. Escarra vs Davis Martin
  3. 3-0.23▲3 · 0-2 ball called strike
    Sam Antonacci vs Gerrit Cole

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. 1Ben Rice — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  2. 2Drew Romo — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  3. 3J.C. Escarra — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: 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.