MIN @ SEA
Home plate: Alan Porter
“One dugout got the friendlier version of the evening.”
What this shows — how Alan Porter called the 151 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
- 1-0.69▼5 · 3-2 ball called strike· challenged
Cole Young vs Zebby Matthews - 2+0.30▲5 · 3-1 strike called ball
Luke Keaschall vs Bryce Miller - 3-0.13▼6 · 1-1 ball called strike
Julio Rodríguez vs Zebby Matthews
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 · 0 overturned (ump overruled) · 4 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Luke Keaschall — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Josh Naylor — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 3Ryan Jeffers — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 4Cole Young — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 2 of 4 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.