NEWYou can now listen to PK Press Club articles!
The average legislator’s schedule generally is full of meetings, audiences, television appearances and more.
However, some surrounded the calendar on June 11 this year.
This is the moment when bad blood between the Republicans and the Democrats can go from Capitol Hill steps to dirt and green herbs of the Nationals Park – the Maison des Nationals de Washington de MLB.
CLICK HERE for more sports cover on Foxnews.com
Senator Eric Schmitt (R-MO) turns in the bases during the Congress Baseball match for Charity at Nationals Park on June 12, 2024 in Washington, DC (Kent Nishimura / Getty images)
The congress baseball match is an annual event between the Republican and Democrats of the House of Representatives and the Senate against each other on the diamond. The match has been played since 1909, when the Democrats defeated the Republicans 26-16. It has been played every year since then – apart from a handful of cancellations.
The Republicans hold the series of the series and are on a sequence of four consecutive victories. GOP legislators won last year’s match, 31-11.
The game is something that Senator Eric Schmitt, R-MO., Eat impatiently every year. Schmitt is a big fan of Cardinals from St. Louis and played baseball at the Truman State University. Schmitt released a sizzling coil before last year’s match and ended up having some big success in the victory of the eruption.
“I feel good,” Schmitt told PK Press Club Digital before the match. “We have a good team and our coach, Roger Williams, takes us out in the morning early for training. So we were sort of recovered your timing, taking fly balls. But there is no substitute. The game, being in a major league stadium with 30,000 people there, is for a great cause, which had a lot of fun.
“So, I appreciate it. I was joking with one of the other field players last year. I said to myself:” This is what I really wanted to do with my life – to be in the outside of the major league for the cardinals ” – but I found myself in the Senate. We can do it once a year. It’s very fun.”
Schmitt said the “most important thing” was to win the match and not beat the score record that the Democrats set in 1928 when they scored 36 points in the match.
One of the key aspects of the game is the charity. The two sides of the aisle collect funds for the sports of the Congress for Charity, which “provides support to worthy and effective charitable organizations at the service of vulnerable children and families in the Washington DC region as well as scholarships for young deserving premises”, according to the game website.
Rep. August PFLUGER (R-TX) and Senator Eric Schmitt (R-MO) celebrate with representative Jake Ellzey (R-TX) during the Congress Baseball match for Charity at Nationals Park on June 12, 2024 in Washington, DC (Kent Nishimura / Getty images)
The recruit hunter of the Red Sox Dobbins says he would retire before signing with the Yankees before the start of the rivalry
“These charitable organizations include boys and girls clubs from the Grand Washington and Philanthropies of Washington Nationals as well as the Commemorative Fund for the Capitol of the United States at gratitude to the courageous officers of republican practice on June 14, 2017,” said the website.
“My family comes to town. Our whole office is there. So it’s an explosion,” said Schmitt. “I think that this year, they are up to $ 2.8 million collected for local charities here. So, it’s a good cause and it’s very fun and has become a kind of social thing for staff and others to go to the game. But for me, you go up on this field, and you want to play, and it’s very fun.”
The presidents are known to attend the match.
President Woodrow Wilson withdrew the first throw twice in the 1917 match while Clark Griffiths could not catch the ball. He also launched the ball to a house representative in 1918. President Barack Obama attended the match in 2015, and President Joe Biden was there in 2021.
It is not clear if President Donald Trump will arise, but Schmitt was in favor of having him there.
“It would be great. I don’t know if it is on his calendar or not, or my friend (vice-president) JD Vance, I think it would be great to have him there,” Schmitt told PK Press Club Digital. “The first two years I played in the match, Biden was president. He was, you know, it’s a little different story there, but I would like to have President Trump there.
“I have actually been able to play golf with President Trump. He knows a lot about sports. In fact, on Trump Force One and some of the campaign stops, we would have conversations on the biggest right -handed striker of all time. Of course, my choice was Albert Pujols. But he knows his sports, and it’s a lot of fun sports with him.”
Senator Eric Schmitt, R-MO., Makes remarks during an audience of the Senate Armed Services Committee on the planned appointment of Pete Hegseth to be Secretary of Defense on Tuesday January 14, 2025 in Washington, DC (Jack Gruber-USA today)
Schmitt joked by saying that he had shown the president a few protruding facts of the congress baseball match.
The teams of Republicans and Democrats are defined. Schmitt is one of the four senators playing in the game.
Sense. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., Alex Padilla, D-Calif., And Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, will compete with Schmitt.
