BOS @ LAD
Home plate: Mike Muchlinski
“Off the corner was close enough tonight.”
What this shows — how Mike Muchlinski called the 167 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 147 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+0.69▲1 · 3-2 strike called ball
Nick Sogard vs Emmet Sheehan - 2+0.69▼3 · 3-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Kyle Tucker vs Jake Bennett - 3+0.23▼1 · 0-2 strike called ball
Tommy Edman vs Jake Bennett
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
5 pitches went to the robots · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Kyle Tucker — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Carlos Narváez — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Ceddanne Rafaela — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 4Eliezer Alfonzo — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 5Caleb Durbin — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 5 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.