Watch MLB’s first female umpire make her first official call
Jen Pawol made history as the first female umpire behind home plate in MLB. Now, she’s making her first call at Truist Park in Atlanta, Georgia.
Willson Contreras‘s untimely bat fling earned him a six-game suspension.
Major League Baseball disciplined Contreras, the St. Louis Cardinals‘ first baseman, on Aug. 26, one day after he flew into a rage after getting ejected and chucked the bat toward the field, striking hitting coach Brant Brown in the arm.
Contreras, 33, is appealing the suspension and was in the lineup for their game against the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Contreras, 33, was upset at home plate umpire Derek Thomas’s called strike call in the seventh inning of their game against Pittsburgh and was ejected after apparently saying something while walking back to the dugout.
Contreras is batting .261 with 29 homers and an .802 OPS this season for the Cardinals.
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