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Heroes who saved the lives of everybody at the baseball field, including steve's. crystal and david have been family to us for years, we ask you continue to pay for their full recovery. >> matt appears well underway. crystal grantor was operated on for a bullet wound in the ankle and is expected to make a full recovery. the world and a record crowd of over 25,000 saw officer david bailey throw out last pitch at last night's charity congressional baseball game. members hold in prayer before game time. their leaders made a bipartisan call for unity. >> what are we trying to do is to tone down th...

>> i want to thank members of congress, their staff and baseball fans across the country for supporting tonight's congressional baseball game. by playing tonight, are showing the world that we will not be intimidated by threats, acts of violence, or assaults on our democracy. on a special night, and leave you with three great american words that for generations have tore down barriers, build bridges in unity and have defied those who have sought to pull us apart. ladies and gentlemen, let's play ball. >> dana: delivering a very special message on a very special night, the game is underway desp...

Congressional baseball game to show that they would not be intimidated. >> time stood still after the first crack of the rifle. someone said run and i ran a far away from the shooter as i could, ran into right field, got on the ground, nowhere for me to go, then he turned to me and started shooting at me. everything started popping around me. i got struck in the leg and at that point i decided i wasn't going to be a sitting duck for this guy. >> reporter: a touching moment when both teams, democrat and republican, came together for a prayer. the president was not at the game but he did send th...

He made this message that played before the opening pitch. >> tonight you are showing the world you will not be intimidated by threats, acts of violence or assaults on our democracy e on this special night, i need you with three great american words that for generations have torn down barriers, built bridges of unity, and defied those who have sought to pull us apart. ladies and gentlemen, let's play ball. >> the game started with one the most moving moments of the night. one of the capitol police officers wounded in the shooting used crutches to step to the pitcher's mound and throw the cerem...

Ladies and gentlemen, let's play ball! >> some especially moving moments so far tonight. phil mattingly has been out here from the ballpark, joins us from the center field stands. what's the mood in the stands where you are? >> reporter: hopeful and possibly even buoyant. it's hard to overstate how rattled lawmakers were yesterday and a moment. tonight is an opportunity not only to unify but to try and get past that, if you think what the lawmakers and staff are going through, everybody here in full force. more than 20,000 tickets were sold. they already raised more than a million dollars for ...