--- title: First Responder Proposes to Girlfriend at Tamp Bay Rays Game: Video description: He pops the question on the field at a Tampa Bay Rays game canonical: https://time.com/3856398/first-responder-surprise-proposal-tampa-bay-rays/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-05-12T22:09:20.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:19:42.468Z og:title: See a First Responder's Sweet Proposal to a Woman He Saved 3 Years Ago og:description: He pops the question on the field at a Tampa Bay Rays game og:url: https://time.com/3856398/first-responder-surprise-proposal-tampa-bay-rays/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: See a First Responder's Sweet Proposal to a Woman He Saved 3 Years Ago twitter:description: He pops the question on the field at a Tampa Bay Rays game twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # See a First Responder's Sweet Proposal to a Woman He Saved 3 Years Ago by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman May 12, 2015 10:09 PM UTC by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman May 12, 2015 10:09 PM UTC At Monday’s Tampa Bay Rays game, a woman named Melissa Dohme walked on the field to throw out the ceremonial first pitch — and it ended up being one of the sweetest first pitches we’ve ever seen. Three years ago, Dohme was the victim of a domestic attack, when her then-boyfriend stabbed her 32 times, Fox Sports [reports](http://www.foxsports.com/mlb/story/tampa-bay-rays-new-york-yankees-tropicana-field-051215). The first responder on the scene to save Dohme’s life was Cameron Hill — and the two began to date after Dohme’s recovery. At Monday’s game, Hill ran to the mound to present her with a ball. On it, he had scrawled, “Will you marry me?” As she realizes what it says, he drops to one knee. Watch the moment in this video [from the Tampa Bay ](http://www.tampabay.com/news/humaninterest/first-responder-proposes-at-rays-game-to-domestic-violence-survivor-he/2229264)[_Times_](http://www.tampabay.com/news/humaninterest/first-responder-proposes-at-rays-game-to-domestic-violence-survivor-he/2229264): ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3856398/first-responder-surprise-proposal-tampa-bay-rays/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3856398/first-responder-surprise-proposal-tampa-bay-rays/"},"headline":"See a First Responder's Sweet Proposal to a Woman He Saved 3 Years Ago","datePublished":"2015-05-12T22:09:20.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:19:42.468Z","description":"He pops the question on the field at a Tampa Bay Rays game","url":"https://time.com/3856398/first-responder-surprise-proposal-tampa-bay-rays/","keywords":["Newsfeed","relationships"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3856398/first-responder-surprise-proposal-tampa-bay-rays/","name":"See a First Responder's Sweet Proposal to a Woman He Saved 3 Years Ago"}}]}] ```