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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-07-09

NYY @ TB

Home plate: Mike Muchlinski

“If it was close, it was a strike. The hitters noticed.”

A-
Umpire Grade
94.4% accurate
0.1
Run Favor
runs, TB
2
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed

What this shows — how Mike Muchlinski called the 143 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 135 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: Jonny DeLuca — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).1Challenge 2: Austin Wells — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).2Challenge 3: Austin Wells — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Austin Wells — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).4
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.39▲3 · 2-2 ball called strike
    Max Schuemann vs Cam Booser
  2. 2+0.20▲2 · 2-1 strike called ball
    Cody Bellinger vs Drew Rasmussen
  3. 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 Hawkeye ground truth, no model involved.

  1. 1Jonny DeLuca — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
  2. 2Austin Wells — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  3. 3Austin Wells — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  4. 4Austin Wells — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.

Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.