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Baseball fans stand and vigor for the Ump not very often (or if you). But if the stadium announcer submitted the judge’s crew before Saturday Brave—Mins game, the crowd flared up. Because having taken its place on the first base, Jen Volul created history as the first judge in the history of the major league.
“The dream came true, as the dream actually came true today,” said the Varol after the victory “Braves” 7-1 over Marlyns in the start game “Doubleheader”. “I still live in this, and I am just grateful to my family because I just created such a strange work situation with which I work with – we just have a strange society. We work, but we’re fun. And I’m just grateful.”
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File -Empire’s home slab takes its position during the first submission of the spring training game in baseball between Houston Astros and Miami Marlyns on Sunday, March 10, 2024, Vest -Palm Bich, Florida. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, File)
From the moment the Pattles took out the field, the Atlanta’s crowd gave her to know what was important in case.
“It seemed that quite a few people began to clap my name,” she said. “It was quite intense and very, very emotional.”
The milestone attracted fans from all over – including some who bought the tickets at the last minute when she found out that the Volul had been summoned. Karen Schultz, a longtime fan of Braves, held a sign that read “We are all dreamers. Go Jen!“Schultz compared what testifies to this historical moment as she watched how Hank Aaron breaks her career career in her” tiny television “in 1974.
“I just think it is the best of the one we are like Americans,” Schultz Outkick said. “This is an American dream. A little girl, a little boy, grows, really dreams and works a lot, and the community supports them and they train and they earn their place. No opportunity to get it, all the obstacles on its way. But she wanted to do it. Ten years, and longer in the minors.
Another fan, Rhodel Pool, wore the judge’s jersey to the game in honor.
“This is unheard of, and this is what was supposed to happen long ago,” Pul Outkick said. “I’m glad it happened here in Atlanta, and we need to come out here and support her and tell her, hey, we want her to have a great career and continue to do it.”
Some were present, knew slowly before her name got into national headlines. Ed Novi, a colleague, and a friend, almost 15 years old, made a trip to New Jersey at the last minute when she received a call.
“She has always been good about this,” said New Outkick. “She’s dedicated. She works in the ass. She is obviously very good. She wouldn’t be here if she was not … I’m not delighted and proud to call her a friend and see her here.”
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Judge Jenno Volig calls the strike during the spring training game between Philadelphia and Miami Marlin at Roger Dina Stadium on March 16, 2024 in Jupiter, Florida. (Rich Stary/Getty Images)
Players also felt inspired by the historical moment. Hurston Waldrep’s starting jug, who has repeatedly encountered a triple ball, called it “really steep” to see it in the top league.
“I can’t imagine how hard it is to come up with?” said Waldrep. “Everyone probably told her it was impossible. They did a great deal of it as it should. And it’s pretty cool for her.”
Brian Snitker’s Braves Manager measured the debut debut with the same standards he uses for the catchers: “If you leave the park and you don’t remember who the catcher is, they probably did a really good job.” And the same thing, he said, goes to the Ump.
A serious note, Snitker added: “Every time anyone breaks his way through minor leagues … I don’t care who it is, it’s a hard job … Their journey and what they are experiencing, and all. I am glad for who eliminates and twists such a career and gets the opportunity to be where they want to be.”
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Judge MLB Jen Volul walks across the field during the MLB Spring Game between Philadelphia Philis and Miami Marlin at Roger Dina Cherlet Stadium on March 16, 2024 in Jupiter, Florida. (Doug Murray/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
Volov said she felt love from the whole amount of the community, fans and women who had a mark in front of her. But now it has come back to grinding. The Plovl will serve as the third basic judge in the second Saturday Two -night game before she took her place on the home plate for the finals of the series on Sunday.
“We just have to go out there now. We have to do it and call,” said the Var. “The dream came true today and it was just incredible.”
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