NYY @ TB
Home plate: Mike Muchlinski
“If it was close, it was a strike. The hitters noticed.”
What this shows — how Mike Muchlinski called the 143 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 133 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
- 1-0.39▲3 · 2-2 ball called strike
Max Schuemann vs Cam Booser - 2+0.20▲2 · 2-1 strike called ball
Cody Bellinger vs Drew Rasmussen - 3-0.13▼5 · 1-1 ball called strike· challenged
Jonny DeLuca vs Brent Headrick
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
4 pitches went to the robots · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Jonny DeLuca — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Austin Wells — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Austin Wells — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Austin Wells — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.