The “Bad News Babes” media team defeated the less-imaginatively named “Members of Congress” 15 to 9 in Wednesday night’s 2023 Congressional Women’s Softball game, a charity event to raise money for the Young Survival Coalition breast cancer awareness organization.
The game started ugly when Fox News host Laura Ingraham attempted to plunk Senator Dianne Feinstein on the very first pitch, leading Feinsten to charge the mound and savagely tear Ingraham down to the ground. The two tussled as both benches cleared, with an absolute melee erupting inside the diamond. CNN’s Dana Bash lived up to her name, throwing furious haymakers at Congresswomen Harriet Hagerman and Rashida Tlaib at the edge of the brawl, which lasted four minutes. Relative peace remained until Feinstein came up in the order again the top of the third…
Yeah we made all that up because we couldn’t find a recap of the game. The score was real. None of the names we mentioned actually played. The Congress team were mostly House members and mostly Dems, the only Senators being Kirsten Gillibrand and team captain Shelly Moore Capito.