Former MLB Player Chase Childers Dies Trying to Save Swimmers Off South Carolina

Chase Childers, who briefly played with the Baltimore Orioles in 2009, died this week trying to save swimmers off the coast of South Carolina.

Childers, a father of three, died attempting to “save swimmers from a rip current off the coast of South Carolina on Sunday, authorities said,” per CBS News.

Chase Childers, who was briefly signed by the Baltimore Orioles, entered the water around 4:45 p.m. to help a group of four or five swimmers as they struggled against the current off Pawleys Island, a coastal town roughly 45 minutes south of Myrtle Beach by car, according to the Pawleys Island Police Department.

“He died trying to save others,” the police department said of Childers, who had gone into the ocean with another person.

Childers was the

Continue reading