Not content to let their male colleagues have all the fun in the annual Congressional Baseball Game, the congressional gals on Tuesday night played their first ever softball game.
They didn’t have enough players to do the whole Republicans vs. Democrats thing like the men, however, so their bipartisan squad took on a team of staff from the National Republican Congressional Committee, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the Republican National Committee and the Democratic National Committee, all to raise money for the Young Survival Coalition.
Despite the fact that organizers Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., and Jo Ann Emerson, R-Mo., had the members out at 7 a.m. to practice every morning for the past month, they were crushed by the committee team, 14-8.
The members played five innings before scoring a single run, and two players were injured in the process (Rep. Nydia Velazquez, D-N.Y., and Wasserman Schultz herself). Rep. Shelley Berkley, D-Nev., did her best to cheer the girls on, telling the crowd that “We’ve got pink shirts, but they’ll be getting pink slips … shh don’t tell,” but nothing seemed to work. Speaker Nancy Pelosi took the game in too, supporting her fellow ladies and actually staying for most of the night.
-Kristen Henry reporting
