SD @ ATL
Home plate: Mike Muchlinski
“Solid and unspectacular — exactly what the job asks.”
What this shows — how Mike Muchlinski called the 114 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 108 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▲1 · 2-2 strike called ball
Fernando Tatis Jr. vs Bryce Elder - 2+0.10▲7 · 0-1 strike called ball· challenged
Xander Bogaerts vs Danny Young - 3+0.10▼7 · 0-1 strike called ball
Jim Jarvis vs Bradgley Rodriguez
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.
- 1Joey Bart — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Joey Bart — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Eli White — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Ozzie Albies — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: 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.