Article snippet: WASHINGTON — The lawmakers trotted from their dugouts at Nationals Park, together in a near-summer air that never quite felt swampy, united in a certainty that the game must go on, just not exactly as it had before. A day earlier, on another ball field some seven miles southwest, a gunman had opened fire on members of the Republican congressional baseball team, striking four people — including Steve Scalise, the majority whip of the House of Representatives — who were there for a practice. And on Thursday, the capital’s various institutional forces — senators and lobbyists, staff members with a job to do and residents with an evening to spare — joined, for a moment, in a bipartisan rebuttal: Play ball. Beneath a mostly cloudless sky, at least by the mid-innings, fans in the stands intermingled red and blue. Near the dugout, the president’s daughter Ivanka Trump bantered with Chuck Schumer, the Senate’s top Democrat, who chatted with two of her young children. Nancy Pelosi, the House minority leader, wore a shirt from Louisiana State University, Mr. Scalise’s alma mater. When a video message from President Trump played on the big screen, some of the Democrats in the crowd booed, but less lustily than usual. “You are showing the world that we will not be intimidated,” Mr. Trump said. “The game will go on.” Some members of Congress had not expected to stay behind for the annual showdown, with families and district business waiting for them. But by nightfall, the dec... Link to the full article to read more