Jen Pawol was in her hotel room in Nashville, Tennessee, when she got the call she had awaited for a decade.

Pawol, a veteran minor league umpire, will be the first female to umpire a regular season MLB game when she debuts on Saturday.

“I don’t want to hurt baseball,” Bernice Gera once said. “All I want is a job. My whole life is baseball.”

Jen Pawol is making some Major League Baseball history as she is getting called up to work the Braves-Marlins series as the league's first female umpire.

MLB’s move comes 28 years after the gender barrier for game officials was broken in the NBA, and 10 years after the NFL hired its first full-time female official.

Jen Pawol was in her hotel room in Nashville, Tennessee, when she got the call she had awaited for a decade.

Baseball umpire Jen Pawol made history Saturday in Atlanta as she became the first woman to umpire a Major League Baseball regular season game.

Jen Pawol donated her hat to a baseball museum after her history-making game on Saturday.

Jen Pawol has made history as the first female umpire to work a regular-season game in the major leagues.

Jen Pawol has made history as the first female umpire to work a regular-season game in the major leagues.

Jen Pawol, 48, was given an ovation when she took to the pitch for a game between the Miami Marlins and Atlanta Braves