NEW YORK -- Jen Pawol was in the middle of umpiring a Triple-A game Wednesday night when Nashville Sounds third baseman Oliver Dunn identified some exciting common ground between them.

“When I make it to the big leagues and we get on the field together, we will have both worked all the levels together on the field,” he said to Pawol.

Indeed, after working over 1,200 Minor League games across every affiliate level over the past 10 seasons, Pawol and MLB players will finally be “on the field together.” Major League Baseball announced on Wednesday that Pawol will be part of the umpire crew for this weekend’s Marlins-Braves series in Atlanta. She will be the first woman to umpire in a regular-season Major League game, but far from the first with those aspirations.

Pam Postema made it as far

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