CIN @ STL
Home plate: Mike Muchlinski
“Both benches went home with nothing to say — the rarest kind of night.”
What this shows — how Mike Muchlinski called the 142 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 136 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
- 1-0.21▲4 · 3-0 ball called strike
Dane Myers vs Dustin May - 2+0.10▼3 · 0-1 strike called ball
Nathan Church vs Rhett Lowder - 3-0.09▼2 · 0-0 ball called strike
Iván Herrera vs Rhett Lowder
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
2 pitches went to the robots · 0 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Jimmy Crooks — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2JJ Bleday — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 2 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.