Capitol press corps beat Lawmakers in historically high scoring Congressional Women’s Softball Game

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Runs came in waves on Wednesday night in the annual Congressional Women’s Softball Game, with the press corps’s team Bad News Babes besting Team Congress 22-16 at Audi Field.

The 18th annual event saw the nation’s legislators — led by captains Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.V.) and Reps. Julia Fedorchak (R-N.D.) and Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) — face the congressional press corps, led by captains Emily Goodin of the New York Post and Katie Lobosco of Tax Notes. The event raised $882,596 for Youth Survival Coalition (YSC), an organization dedicated to helping young adults diagnosed with breast cancer.

“It’s about raising money for cancer, building some collegiality and making sure that folks feel that there’s some joy in this hard work,” Rep. Emily Randall (D-Wash.) said of the game before the first pitch. 

The game was established in 2009 by a group of lawmakers, including Wasserman Schultz, who had just announced her own battle with breast cancer. The game has raised over $5.8 million for YSC since its........

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