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. 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
- 1-0.19▼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), not our error.