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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-06-28

PHI @ NYM

Home plate: Mike Muchlinski

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B-
Umpire Grade
91.8% accurate
0.2
Run Favor
runs, NYM
3
ABS Overturns
of 5 reviewed

What this shows — how Mike Muchlinski called the 170 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 156 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: Mark Vientos — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: J.T. Realmuto — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Francisco Alvarez — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).3Challenge 4: Ronny Mauricio — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).4Challenge 5: Luis Torrens — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).5
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.30▼1 · 3-1 ball called strike
    Bo Bichette vs Jesús Luzardo
  2. 2+0.20▼7 · 2-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
    Ronny Mauricio vs José Alvarado
  3. 3+0.13▼7 · 1-1 strike called ball
    Ronny Mauricio vs José Alvarado

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 Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Mark Vientos — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  2. 2J.T. Realmuto — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Francisco Alvarez — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  4. 4Ronny Mauricio — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  5. 5Luis Torrens — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.