PHI @ KC
Home plate: Alan Porter
“Nothing that'll trend, and on this beat that's a compliment.”
What this shows — how Alan Porter called the 199 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 186 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
- 1-0.30▲2 · 3-1 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Bryce Harper vs Noah Cameron - 2+0.28▼1 · 1-2 strike called ball
Bobby Witt Jr. vs Cristopher Sánchez - 3+0.28▼6 · 1-2 strike called ball
Jac Caglianone vs Kyle Backhus
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 · 2 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Kyle Schwarber — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Bryce Harper — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 3Lane Thomas — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 4Brandon Marsh — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 5Luke Maile — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 5 of 5 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.