Soldiers surprise their children at Yankees game after 9-month deployment

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In this photo taken Thursday, June 16, 2016, contractors continue work to install a baseball field on post at Fort Bragg, N.C. The Atlanta Braves and Miami Marlins will play a salute-the-troops game at this vast U.S. Army post the night before Independence Day. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)

For the past nine months, Army Chief Warrant Officer Jose Gomez and Army Capt. Elizabeth Gomez, of Houston, have been deployed in Kuwait. In the meantime, their children, Daniel, 10, and Isabella, 5, have been living with their grandparents in Tampa, Florida. 

With some help from the New York Yankees, the family is now reunited, reports CBS News Channel 3. The team honored the two children with throwing out the first pitch of a spring training game, then a video message of their parents played while Elizabeth and Jose were dressed as Yankee catchers, complete with the helmet to cover their faces. 

After Isabella pitched the ball, the parents revealed themselves. 



“This is really crazy,” Daniel said during a brief news conference, according to the Tampa Bay Times. “I don’t believe this is happening.”

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Rachael Kalinyak is an editorial intern with Network Solutions.