PHI @ AZ
Home plate: Mike Muchlinski
“If it was close, it was a strike. The hitters noticed.”
What this shows — how Mike Muchlinski called the 178 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 162 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▼4 · 2-1 strike called ball
Lars Nootbaar vs Aaron Nola - 2-0.20▲6 · 2-1 ball called strike
Bryson Stott vs Brandon Pfaadt - 3-0.19▼3 · 2-0 ball called strike
Corbin Carroll vs Aaron Nola
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.
- 1Gabriel Moreno — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 2Alec Bohm — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Trea Turner — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4Garrett Stubbs — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 5Ildemaro Vargas — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
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.