Suspended Chris Davis saves man from flipped pickup truck
Baltimore Oriole Chris Davis stops passers-by to help upright an overturned truck on a Maryland highway.
BALTIMORE Orioles slugger Chris Davis is currently sitting out a 25-game suspension for using Adderall, a banned substance. Usually a drug that helps people with attention deficit disorder improve their focus, it is categorized by Major League Baseball as a stimulant, thus the suspension.
Maybe Davis can use what happened Monday on a Maryland highway as Exhibit A that, indeed, the drug has made him more alert and focused.
Traveling on I-295 on his way to pick up friends at Baltimore-Washington Thurgood Marshall Airport, Davis saw a tire blow out on a big pickup truck, causing the vehicle to flip and pin a man underneath it.
Davis, whose nickname just happens to be "Crash," was the first to arrive at the accident scene and began waving to passers-by to stop and help.
The Davis-led group lifted and uprighted the overturned truck and released the trapped driver, according to MASNSports.com.
The website reported that the Orioles confirmed the account provided by Mike Soukup, one of the people who helped Davis.
"When I turned to look at the first man, I instantly noticed a very strong resemblance to Chris Davis," Soukup wrote in an email to MASNSports.com. "He didn't have any Orioles gear on, so I wasn't sure . . . there was no big '19' on him anywhere, except his tennis shoes were black and orange.
"We glanced at each other with a 'good job' look and I said, 'Chris?' He said, 'Yeah?' 'Chris Davis?' 'Yeah?' I said, 'One hell of a way to meet Chris Davis.' "
Soukup also wrote in the email that he disagreed with the suspension of Davis, who was banned Friday and has apologized for making "a mistake by taking Adderall."
Davis is hitting a major league-worst .196 this season and has struck out 173 times in 127 games. If the Orioles make the postseason, he will be suspended for the first eight games.