WSH @ DET
Home plate: Mike Muchlinski
“One of those nights the challenge system was invented for.”
What this shows — how Mike Muchlinski called the 157 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 143 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▲7 · 1-2 strike called ball
Jacob Young vs Jacob Waguespack - 2-0.13▲1 · 1-1 ball called strike
James Wood vs Framber Valdez - 3+0.13▲4 · 1-1 strike called ball
Dylan Crews vs Framber Valdez
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
4 pitches went to the robots · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Harry Ford — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Dillon Dingler — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Harry Ford — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Max Clark — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.