Chicago Sun-Times Washington Bureau Chief Lynn Sweet, en route to first base at Congressional Women's Softball game. (Photo by Jeff Malet)

CNN White House correspondent and softball slugger Brianna Keiler voices the game story on CNN's "The Situation Room"

ABC News political director and softball powerhouse Amy Walter voices the game story on ABC's TOPLINE program.


WASHINGTON--A heartstopping final play handed lawmakers a 5-4 victory Thursday night against a press team at the Congressional Women's Softball game.

I played on the press team and faced pitcher Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) at my two times at bat; I singled to first both times.

From ABC News: "Tied up 4-4 in the bottom of the seventh inning, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz drove in the winning run as the Members team beat the Bad News Babes 5-4 in the third-annual Congressional Women's Softball Game."

"....with two outs in the bottom of the seventh inning, Rep. Linda Sanchez (D-Calif.) was intentionally walked, as was Rep. Laura Richardson (D-Calif.), who blasted a 3-run HR earlier in the game. The media's gamble to pitch to Wasserman Schultz was a bust, as the Florida Democrat lined a grounder up the middle to bring Sanchez around for a play at the plate."

In the crowd: House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, (D-Calif.) and Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.). Yankees fan Sonia Sotomayor, the Supreme Court Justice, tossed out a symbolic first pitch, fresh from her Saturday Wrigley Field debut at the Cubs-Yankees game, where she took to the mound for the first ball toss. NBC's Andrea Mitchell and Sen. Amy Klobachar (D-Mn.) did the play by play.

The game was a benefit for the Young Women's Survival Coalition, created to help fight breast cancer in young women.