Home-plate umpire Alan Porter was almost perfect behind the plate for 15 innings of dramatic postseason baseball.

The starting pitcher spent his entire 13-year career with the San Francisco Giants, racking up 1,694 strikeouts in 2,805 ⅔ innings en route to 104 wins. He also owns one of the 24 perfect games in Major League Baseball history, facing the minimum 27 batters in a historic performance against the Houston Astros in 2012.

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With one swing of the bat, Jorge Polanco ended a 15-inning marathon of an ALDS game that had all the drama, eliminating the Detroit Tigers and sending the Seattle Mariners to their first ALCS since 2001.

On the Cubs’ quest for 27 outs, manager Craig Counsell turned to six of his 11 available pitchers in Saturday night’s 3-1 loss to the Brewers in a winner-take-all Game 5 of the National League Division Series at American Family Field.

Every decision is heightened in the MLB postseason. Whether it be a lineup, rotation or roster, every manager is bound to be second guessed, and when those choi