Jen Pawol made history, but she also had a rough day.
Pawol made baseball history on Saturday by becoming the first woman to umpire an MLB regular-season game, taking the post at first base during Saturday’s matchup between the Miami Marlins and Atlanta Braves .
Pawol was called up from the Triple-A ranks to work both ends of Saturday’s doubleheader between the Marlins and Braves.
In Sunday’s series final, she got behind the plate.
Pawol did the punch-out signal in the top of the first inning in Atlanta, highlighting MLB’s first behind-the-plate umpire performance by a female.
Things did not start out well for her. The game’s opening pitch from Braves starter Joey Wentz was inside and out of the zone. It should’ve been an easy call.
Unfortunately, Jen Pawol called it a strike.
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