PIT @ CHC
Home plate: Alan Porter
“Somebody's pitching staff sent a thank-you note.”
What this shows — how Alan Porter called the 176 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 167 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+0.69▲2 · 3-2 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Oneil Cruz vs Jameson Taillon - 2+0.69▼3 · 3-2 strike called ball
Alex Bregman vs Bubba Chandler - 3+0.30▼8 · 3-1 strike called ball
Seiya Suzuki vs Justin Lawrence
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
6 pitches went to the robots · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Ryan O'Hearn — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Bubba Chandler — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Carson Kelly — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Carson Kelly — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 5Joey Bart — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 6Alex Bregman — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 6 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.