[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 4]
[Senate]
[Page 5706]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          WASHINGTON NATIONALS

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, Senator McConnell and I love our jobs. We 
realize how important things are that we work on, but once in a while 
we take a minute and talk about one of our hobbies and that is watching 
baseball.
  Because we are in Washington and have been for some time, we have 
been focused recently on the Nationals. They started off in a very bad 
fashion, losing, now--last night, they were in the process of a six-
game losing streak. They brought in a pitcher because their star was 
injured. He gave up nine runs in two innings. So I think we were both 
fairly well going to acknowledge they were going to lose their seventh 
straight, but they won the game 13 to 12.
  I admire the tenacity of the Republican leader because he watched the 
end of the game. I couldn't do that. I tried, but at the beginning of 
the ninth inning--they had given up more runs earlier--they were behind 
with one out, and I said: I am going to go to bed. I was surprised when 
I got up this morning and they had won. So we had a good laugh talking 
about the game today that they had won. As I indicated, I am sorry I 
didn't get to watch the last of the game. I decided I didn't have 
enough faith in the team, and I went to bed.

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