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We are one step closer to having ‘robot umpires’

It’s pitch 5. Which is clearly not a strike, as shown here:

There was a runner on first and nobody out in the top of the ninth when that horrendous call happened, and it was this horrendous:

According to @ESPNStatsInfo the strike 3 call on Kemp in the 9th inning had a 0.00 percent chance of being called a strike. (Based on history of that pitch)

— Jesse Rogers (@ESPNChiCubs) August 14, 2019

Now, would the Cubs have won that game if Kemp’s at-bat had continued? Of course, we’ll never know.