Social studies

The top-performing social media post for the Tampa Bay Rays last year had little to do with baseball.

Instead, it was a short video of a marriage proposal.

The woman throwing the first pitch prior to a game was brutally abused years before, by a former boyfriend. She eventually fell in love with one of the EMT first responders from that incident. When the Rays asked her to throw the first pitch, he surprised her on the mound holding a ball with the message, “Will you marry me?” That post had 16 million impressions.