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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-24

KC @ TB

Home plate: Mike Muchlinski

“Hawkeye did more talking than the umpire tonight.”

A-
Umpire Grade
94.0% accurate
0.1
Run Favor
runs, TB
5
ABS Overturns
of 7 reviewed

What this shows — how Mike Muchlinski called the 151 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 142 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 Williamson — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Nick Fortes — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Salvador Perez — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Isaac Collins — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).4Challenge 5: Salvador Perez — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).5Challenge 6: Junior Caminero — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).6Challenge 7: Nick Fortes — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).7
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.20▲5 · 2-1 ball called strike
    Carter Jensen vs Griffin Jax
  2. 2-0.20▲9 · 2-1 ball called strike
    Carter Jensen vs Bryan Baker
  3. 3-0.19▼3 · 2-0 ball called strike
    Jonathan Aranda vs Noah Cameron

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

7 pitches went to the robots · 5 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Ben Williamson — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  2. 2Nick Fortes — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Salvador Perez — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  4. 4Isaac Collins — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  5. 5Salvador Perez — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  6. 6Junior Caminero — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  7. 7Nick Fortes — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 7 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.