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By the time you read this, Jen Pawol — who became the first female umpire in Major League Baseball’s history on Saturday — will already be back in Triple A, and the buzz of the national media attention and the celebratory champagne poured in paper Gatorade cups will have mostly subsided. There aren’t many fancy glass options in the belly …

Umpire Jen Pawol made history on Saturday afternoon when she became the first woman umpire in Major League Baseball history. Pawol has worked over 1,200 Minor League games throughout her career, and she finally made her first MLB appearance after years of umpiring in the minors. Pawol was at first base in Game 1 of a doubleheader between the Miami …

Baseball umpire Jen Pawol made history Saturday in Atlanta as she became the first woman to umpire a Major League Baseball regular season game. Pawol worked at first base in Game 1 of the Atlanta Braves’ doubleheader against the Miami Marlins at Truist Park. Advertisement Making her big league debut in front of 35,664 fans, Pawol was grinning ear to …

Jen Pawol has made US sporting history by becoming the first female umpire to referee a Major League Baseball (MLB) game during the regular season. Pawol, 48, oversaw first base during Saturday’s game between the Miami Marlins and Atlanta Braves. “I’m aware of the gravity. I’m aware of the magnitude,” she said, as quoted by MLB.com. Pawol looked overjoyed as …

ATLANTA — Stationed near first base in the familiar black shirt and charcoal-gray slacks, Jen Pawol watched intently as the Atlanta Braves’ Hurston Waldrep fired the first pitch of a doubleheader Saturday. With that, Pawol, 48, made major-league history as the first female umpire to work a regular-season game. The moment completed a journey that took Pawol more than 1,200 …

ATLANTA (AP) — Jen Pawol has made history as the first female umpire to work a regular-season game in the major leagues. Pawol’s much-anticipated debut came as the first base umpire for Saturday’s first game of a split doubleheader between the Atlanta Braves and Miami Marlins. She enjoyed a quiet first inning, watching as Braves right-hander Hurston Waldrep struck out …

Facebook Tweet Email Link New York AP  —  Jen Pawol was in her hotel room in Nashville, Tennessee, when she got the call she had awaited for a decade. She was going to make her major league debut this weekend, becoming the first female umpire in a century and a half of big league baseball. “I was overcome with emotion,” …

Jen Pawol, a minor-league umpire since 2016, is set to make her major-league debut on Saturday, making her the first female umpire in regular-season MLB history. Pawol is being called up for the Miami Marlins-Atlanta Braves doubleheader on Saturday, when she will work the bases for those two games. For Sunday’s series finale, she is slated to be behind the …

Jen Pawol will make history this weekend as the first woman to be an umpire in a regular-season MLB game. Pawol will ump three games during this weekend’s Marlins-Braves series in Atlanta, including both ends of Saturday’s doubleheader and the series finale on Sunday, when she will be behind home plate. The doubleheader necessitated adding a fifth umpire to the …

NEW YORK (AP) — Jen Pawol is set to become the first woman to umpire in Major League Baseball when she works games this weekend between the Miami Marlins and Atlanta Braves. Pawol will work the bases in Saturday’s doubleheader at Truist Park and the plate on Sunday, MLB told The Associated Press on Wednesday. Pawol, a 48-year-old from New …