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 …
Read More »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 …
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ATLANTA — Seattle Mariners slugger Cal Raleigh was just as successful with the first robot umpire All-Star challenge as he was in the Home Run Derby. The Raleigh family supports Cal en route to Home Run Derby title Seattle’s catcher signaled for an appeal to the Automated Ball-Strike System in the first inning Tuesday, getting a strikeout on San Diego’s …
Read More »ATLANTA (AP) — Cal Raleigh was just as successful with the first robot umpire All-Star challenge as he was in the Home Run Derby. Seattle’s catcher signaled for an appeal to the Automated Ball-Strike System in the first inning Tuesday, getting a strikeout for Detroit’s Tarik Subal on San Diego’s Manny Machado. “You take ‘em any way you can get …
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Tuesday’s MLB All-Star Game will feature a change that baseball fans have been longing to see. The Automated Ball-Strike System will be in place for the Midsummer Classic as the league continues to test the system out before officially bringing it to MLB. And it seems that implementation may be just around the corner. During a Monday appearance on The …
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