Shohei Ohtani greets Jen Pawol in her first game of the season

Jen Pawol officiated her first Major League Baseball game of the season on June 5, 2026, as the Los Angeles Dodgers faced the Los Angeles Angels. She was behind the plate, and before his first at-bat, Shohei Ohtani greeted her, following his customary practice. Pawol, who made history as the first female MLB umpire last year, has umpired in the MLB for multiple years. In the early innings, both starting pitchers, Reid Detmers and Roki Sasaki, held their opponents hitless, with Detmers allowing a single to Freddie Freeman in the fourth and Sasaki giving up a double in the fifth.

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