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Blue Notes · Umpire Grade2026-07-20

SD @ ATL

Home plate: Mike Muchlinski

“The strike zone picked a side, and wasn't shy about it.”

B
Umpire Grade
93.0% accurate
1.1
Run Favor
runs, SD
2
ABS Overturns
of 4 reviewed

What this shows — how Mike Muchlinski called the 114 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 106 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: Joey Bart — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled strike (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).1Challenge 2: Joey Bart — the ump called it a ball, the robot ruled ball (upheld — ump confirmed).2Challenge 3: Eli White — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled ball (OVERTURNED — ump overruled).3Challenge 4: Ozzie Albies — the ump called it a strike, the robot ruled strike (upheld — ump confirmed).4
strike called ballball called strikeABS overturnedABS upheld

The calls that moved the game

  1. 1-0.69▼8 · 3-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
    Eli White vs Kyle Hart
  2. 2+0.39▲1 · 2-2 strike called ball
    Fernando Tatis Jr. vs Bryce Elder
  3. 3+0.13▲4 · 1-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
    Xander Bogaerts vs Bryce Elder

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.

  1. 1Joey Bart — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
  2. 2Joey Bart — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
  3. 3Eli White — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
  4. 4Ozzie Albies — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: 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.

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