MIL @ LAD
Home plate: Mike Muchlinski
“Not the sharpest, and the grade agrees.”
What this shows — how Mike Muchlinski called the 150 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 137 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+0.13▲1 · 1-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Jackson Chourio vs Yoshinobu Yamamoto - 2-0.13▲6 · 1-1 ball called strike
Jake Bauers vs Yoshinobu Yamamoto - 3+0.13▼7 · 1-1 strike called ball
Shohei Ohtani vs Robert Gasser
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.
- 1Hunter Feduccia — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Hunter Feduccia — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3William Contreras — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.