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Home plate: Mike Muchlinski
“The plate grew a few inches after the first pitch.”
What this shows — how Mike Muchlinski called the 162 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 144 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+0.20▲5 · 2-1 strike called ball
Josh Smith vs Hunter Brown - 2-0.20▼6 · 2-1 ball called strike
LaMonte Wade Jr. vs Spencer Miles - 3-0.19▼1 · 2-0 ball called strike
Yordan Alvarez vs Jameson Taillon
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
3 pitches went to the robots · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Yainer Diaz — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Brandon Valenzuela — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Brandon Valenzuela — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.