TEX @ TOR
Home plate: Alan Porter
“Nothing that'll trend, and on this beat that's a compliment.”
What this shows — how Alan Porter called the 149 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
- 1-0.39▲5 · 2-2 ball called strike
Josh Jung vs Shane Bieber - 2+0.30▲1 · 3-1 strike called ball· challenged ✓
Corey Seager vs Shane Bieber - 3-0.13▲9 · 1-1 ball called strike
Corey Seager vs Louis Varland
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 · 4 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Alejandro Kirk — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 2Elias Díaz — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 3Alejandro Kirk — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 4Alejandro Kirk — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 5Andrés Giménez — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 4 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.