STL @ COL
Home plate: Mike Muchlinski
“A workmanlike night — nothing to frame, nothing to fix.”
What this shows — how Mike Muchlinski called the 142 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 138 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+0.28▲5 · 1-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Bryan Torres vs Mason Adams - 2+0.23▲4 · 0-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Nolan Gorman vs Mason Adams - 3+0.13▲1 · 1-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Iván Herrera vs Mason Adams
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.
- 1Hunter Goodman — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Hunter Goodman — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Hunter Goodman — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Cole Carrigg — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 5Leo Bernal — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: 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.