\u201cI think she did great,\u201d Judge said afterward. \u201cShe\u2019s on top of it. She\u2019s locked in back there. A couple of times I asked her about a couple of pitches — if they were down, or that\u2019s the bottom [of the zone], and she was right there locked in, so that was good.\u201d<\/p>\n
The ABS system is nothing new for Pawol. As a minor-league umpire, she\u2019s already had plenty of experience with the technology, as it\u2019s been used in the minors as far back as 2019. On Sunday, aside from Judge\u2019s strikeout, A\u2019s leadoff hitter Carlos Cortes tested Pawol right out the gate, challenging Will Warren\u2019s first-pitch fastball that she called a strike. The review confirmed Pawol\u2019s call, with half the baseball inside the zone.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve been with Jen for a while, from Double-A all the way up,\u201d said Warren, now in his second full season with the Yankees. \u201cShe\u2019s been doing a good job, so it\u2019s nice to see her up here.\u201d<\/p>\n
Pawol, 49, had a solid performance Sunday. Her overall accuracy was 93%, according to umpscorecards.com, with 159 of the game\u2019s 171 pitches called correctly. Her \u201crelative accuracy\u201d was plus-0.2% above expected, meaning she had 0.3 more correct calls than the average umpire. On the season, Pawol\u2019s accuracy is 91.4%, which is toward the lower end, but anticipated for an umpire still collecting major-league reps.<\/p>\n
Sunday was not your average test, either. On a cloudless, 83-degree afternoon, Pawol had to endure a 43-minute top half of the third inning, when the Yankees scored 13 runs on 11 hits and sent 18 batters to the plate<\/a>. She saw 75 pitches from the A\u2019s during that half-inning alone, her only breathers coming on the multiple mound visits.<\/p>\n
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