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The schedule of Congress’s average legislator is generally full of meetings, audiences, television appearances and more.
However, some have June 11 in circulation in the calendar this year.
It is the time when any bad blood between Republicans and Democrats can go from Capitol Hill to Earth and green grass in Nationals Park, the MLB Washington National House.
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Senator Eric Schmitt (R-MO) rounds the bases during the Congress baseball game for charity in Nationals Park on June 12, 2024 in Washington, DC (Kent Nishimura/Getty Images)
The baseball game of Congress is an annual event that faces the Republican and Democrats of the House of Representatives and the Senate with each other in the diamond. The game has been played since 1909, when the Democrats defeated Republicans 26-16. It has been played every year since then, apart from a handful of cancellations.
Republicans have the advantage of the series and are on a four -game winning streak. The legislators of the Republican party won last year’s game, 31-11.
The game is something that Senator Eric Schmitt, Republican of Mo., long -awaited every year. Schmitt is a big fan of the San Luis cardinals and played baseball at Truman State University. Schmitt launched a sizzling reel before last year’s game and ended up having some great hits in Blowout’s victory.
“I feel good,” Schmitt told Fox Digital before the game. “We have a good team and our coach, Roger Williams, takes us in the morning quite early for practices. So we have been back your return time, taking flight balls. But there is no substitute. The game, being in a major leagues stadium with 30,000 people there, is for a great cause, it has been very fun.
“So, I enjoy it. I was joking with one of the other gardeners last year. I thought: ‘This is what I really wanted to do with my life, to be in the field of the big leagues for the cardinals, but I ended up in the Senate. We did this once once a year. It is very fun.”
Schmitt said that the “most important” is to win the game and not break the score record that the Democrats established in 1928, when they scored 36 races in the game.
One of the key aspects of the game is the charity component. Both sides of the corridor raise money for the sports of Congress for charity, which “provides support to decent and effective beneficial organizations that serve vulnerable children and families in the Washington DC area, as well as scholarships for local young people deserving,” according to the game website.
Representative August Pfluger (R-TX) and Senator Eric Schmitt (R-MO) celebrate with the representative Jake Ellzey (R-TX) during the baseball game of Congress for Charity in Nationals Park on June 12, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Kent Nishimura/Getty Images)
The rookie hunter of the Red Sox, Dobbins, says he would retire before signing with the Yankees before rivalry.
“These beneficial organizations include the children’s clubs of the Great Washington and the National Washington philanthropists along with the United States Capitol Police Memorial Fund in gratitude for the brave officers in the shooting of republican practice on June 14, 2017,” the website said.
“My family comes to the city. Our entire office is there. So, it’s wonderful,” said Schmitt. “I think this year is up to $ 2.8 million collected for local beneficial organizations here. Therefore, it is a great cause and is very fun and has become something social for staff and others to go to the game. But for me, you reach that field, and you want to act, and that is very fun.”
It is known that the presidents attend the game.
President Woodrow Wilson launched the first release twice in the 1917 game, since Clark Griffiths could not catch the ball. He also launched the ball to a representative of the house in 1918. President Barack Obama attended the game in 2015, and President Joe Biden was there in 2021.
It is not clear if President Donald Trump will appear, but Schmitt was in favor of having it there.
“That would be great. I don’t know if he is on his calendar or not, or my friend (vice president) JD Vance, I think it would be great to have it there,” Schmitt told Pak Gazette Digital. “The first two years I played in the game, Biden was president. It was, you know, it’s a slightly different story there, but I would love to have President Trump there.
“I have actually played golf with President Trump. He knows a lot about sports. In fact, in Trump he forces one and some of the campaign stops, we would have conversations about the best right -hand batter of all time. Of course, my choice was Albert Pujols. But he knows his sports, and it is very fun to talk about sports with him.”
Senator Eric Schmitt, R-MO., Offers comments during an audience of the Senate Armed Services Committee on the expected nomination of Pete Hegseth to be Secretary of Defense on Tuesday, January 14, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Jack Gruber-Use today)
Schmitt joked that he showed the president some prominent aspects of the baseball game of Congress.
The teams of the Republicans and the Democrats are established. Schmitt is one of the four senators playing in the game.
Sens. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., Alex Padilla, D-Calif., And Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, will compete with Schmitt.
