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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-21

SD @ TEX

Home plate: Mike Muchlinski

“Corner-to-corner and then some.”

B+
Umpire Grade
93.2% accurate
0.2
Run Favor
runs, TEX
1
ABS Overturns
of 1 reviewed

What this shows — how Mike Muchlinski called the 132 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 123 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: Gavin Sheets — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.28▲7 · 1-2 ball called strike
    Samad Taylor vs Peyton Gray
  2. 2-0.23▼8 · 0-2 ball called strike
    Kyle Higashioka vs Yuki Matsui
  3. 3-0.13▲1 · 1-1 ball called strike
    Gavin Sheets vs Nathan Eovaldi

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

1 pitch went to the robots · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 0 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Gavin Sheets — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 0 of 1 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.