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

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.

Debutterà dietro alla «casa base» nelle due partite tra i Marlins e i Braves ad Atlanta di sabato prossimo

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

Jen Pawol did the punch-out signal in the top of the first inning, highlighting MLB's first behind-the-plate umpire performance by a female in Atlanta.

One could say Jen Pawol earned the greatest compliment an umpire could get: Aside from her trailblazing debut, you'd have hardly noticed her.