PHI @ NYM
Home plate: Mike Muchlinski
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What this shows — how Mike Muchlinski called the 170 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 157 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
- 1-0.30▼1 · 3-1 ball called strike
Bo Bichette vs Jesús Luzardo - 2+0.13▼7 · 1-1 strike called ball
Ronny Mauricio vs José Alvarado - 3-0.13▼4 · 1-0 ball called strike
Juan Soto vs Jesús Luzardo
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
5 pitches went to the robots · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Mark Vientos — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2J.T. Realmuto — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Francisco Alvarez — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 4Ronny Mauricio — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 5Luis Torrens — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.