Mick Abel’s fastball to Liam Hicks just clipped the bottom of the strike zone. If the automatic ball-strike system the Phillies had experimented with in spring training was in use on Monday in Miami, ...

"If I don't walk those two guys in the last inning ... Carpenter started taking off his gear to head to first base, but the home plate umpire did not see it hit Carpenter and ruled it a ball.