Another day, another major milestone for Shohei Ohtani. This time around, it was his 1000th career hit (which he naturally did in style, as a home run). Ohtani shows no signs of slowing down in his breakneck campaign to destroy records and secure himself a spot in the Baseball Hall of Fame.

Ohtani’s milestone checklist aside, we also touch on the other big first coming this week, and that is Jen Pawol becoming the first female umpire in MLB history. Our own Al Yellon wrote about this groundbreaking moment as well.

There’s plenty of other fun stuff to get into for your Friday news brief. On a housekeeping note, we want to apologize for OTC being absent on Wednesday. Due to some unexpected delays with the transition to our new publishing system, it couldn’t be avoided, but I’m thrilled we’

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