A Democratic representative wasn’t having a ball at Thursday night’s Congressional Baseball Game when her team lost 10-0, prompting her to make an obscene gesture.
Rep. Linda Sanchez (D-CA) was seen giving high-fives to the Republicans after the game ended, but then she ran past the GOP’s dugout and flipped her middle finger. Sanchez has been roundly criticized for her “classless” sportsmanship in the footage captured by C-SPAN.
“Rep. Linda Sanchez is classless,” Nick Adams, the president of the nonprofit Foundation for Liberty and American Greatness, wrote on social media. “Giving the middle finger to the GOP Baseball team is hateful and divisive. Sanchez should be banned from all future Congressional baseball games and permanently stripped of all committees.”
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Rep. Linda Sanchez is classless.
Giving the middle finger to the GOP Baseball team is hateful and divisive.
Sanchez should be banned from all future Congressional baseball games and permanently stripped of all committees.
— Nick Adams (@NickAdamsinUSA) July 29, 2022
California Democrat Rep. Linda Sanchez gave the Republican dug out the finger right before her team got BODIED 10-0 by the GOP in the congressional baseball game.
What a nasty, disgusting slob.
Perfect representation of the modern Left:pic.twitter.com/TigaRA7I1d
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) July 29, 2022
Congresswoman Linda Sanchez flipping off Republicans in a charity game to support the Boys and Girls Club of DC. Sad! pic.twitter.com/wOLL6krs48
— Mark Walker (@RepMarkWalker) July 29, 2022
Rep. Linda Sanchez just flipped off the Republican bench after drawing a walk and getting pulled for a pinch-runner lmao
— Claude Thompson (@Th3Claude) July 29, 2022
Sanchez has not commented on her decision to make the gesture as of Friday morning.
Thursday night’s game marked the second year in a row that the GOP won the Congressional Baseball Game after eking out a 13-12 victory in 2021. Some people and politicians on social media joked that the 2022 results of the game would foreshadow the expected outcome of the 2022 midterm elections.
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The Congressional Baseball Game, an annual baseball game that pits Democratic and Republican members of Congress against each other, was first played in 1909. Prior to last year’s GOP victory, the Democrats boasted a three-game winning streak, although the 2020 event was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
