COL @ AZ
Home plate: Mike Muchlinski
“An honest evening's grade: nothing loud, nothing missed by much.”
What this shows — how Mike Muchlinski called the 155 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 148 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
- 1-0.30▼7 · 3-1 ball called strike
Nolan Arenado vs Zach Agnos - 2+0.13▼2 · 1-1 strike called ball
Gabriel Moreno vs Gabriel Hughes - 3+0.13▼4 · 1-0 strike called ball
Corbin Carroll vs Gabriel Hughes
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.
- 1Hunter Goodman — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Gabriel Moreno — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 1 of 2 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.