WSH @ SD
Home plate: Mike Muchlinski
“The zone stretched its legs.”
What this shows — how Mike Muchlinski called the 150 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone, or, on a pitch the ABS (Automated Ball-Strike System) reviewed on a challenge, against its ruling. 138 were right. Below, only the misses are plotted, alongside every challenged pitch.
The zone, as he called it
The calls that moved the game
- 1-0.19▼5 · 2-0 ball called strike
Jackson Merrill vs Brad Lord - 2+0.13▲4 · 1-1 strike called ball
Keibert Ruiz vs Kyle Hart - 3+0.13▼8 · 1-1 strike called ball
Xander Bogaerts vs Eddy Yean
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 · 1 overturned (ump overruled) · 2 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Luis Campusano — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 2Luis Campusano — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Xander Bogaerts — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 3 of 3 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone). Where the two disagree, the umpire is graded on the ABS ruling.