Who says the power of the press is waning? At last night’s charity Congressional Women’s Softball Game, the team of journalists trounced the lawmakers.

Read our colleague Rachael Bade’s write-up of the match, which featured plenty of slugs and high-fives, all for a good cause.

A few HOH-able tidbits, courtesy of our softball-loving tipsters:

• The lawmakers had an impressive team of five (!) attending physicians in their dugout (perhaps wary after last year’s game in which Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) fractured her leg and sprained her ankle).

• Rep. Diana DeGette (D-Colo.) hosted an after-game gathering at the nearby Kavanagh’s pizza shop, where a tipster tells HOH that a “very intense” Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) was overheard plotting next year’s comeback. “Next year, more,” she was overheard telling Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.). “More practice, more practice and more scrimmages.” Look out, scribes!

• Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) won a raffle item, a pink-and-black softball glove. But a tipster tells HOH that it might not have been pure luck: Pelosi seemed to have bought “about 20” tickets for the charity raffle.

Birds of a Feather

Here’s the easiest way we’ve heard of to help out those poor oily birds on the Gulf Coast: drink to them. A handful of Congressional staffers and their friends are hosting a fundraiser tonight benefiting the Greater New Orleans Foundation and the Audubon Nature Institute.

The charity shindig kicks off at 6:30 p.m. at Acadiana, where a $20 suggested donation gets you some Big Easy cocktail specials ($5 Pimm’s cups, anyone?) and the feeling that you’re doing your small part. We’ll drink to that.

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