One day after becoming the first woman to umpire an MLB regular-season game, Jen Pawol was behind home plate for Sunday's game between the Miami Marlins and Atlanta Braves, making her the first female umpire to call balls and strikes for an MLB game.
With strike zone graphics now a mainstay on MLB broadcasts and resources like MLB Gameday showing balls and strikes in detail, calls by home plate umpires are under more scrutiny than they have ever been. Unfortunately, Pawol contributed to that discourse with a dubious first strike call.
The opening pitch of the game from Braves starter Joey Wentz was inside and out of the zone, but Pawol called the 93 mph fastball a strike.