Philadelphia Phillies TV analyst Ben Davis lived to tell the tale of a wild incident involving a chainsaw at his home.
Davis, 48, was attempting to deal with the trees in his yard when a near-disaster struck.
“We have a lot of white pine. They’re terrible trees,” Davis said on the WIP Morning Show on Tuesday, March 2. “If the snow gets on them, they fall. I had two big ones fall. I got done cleaning up one the other day.”
The process of cleaning up, Davis explained, involved chopping up the trees into small pieces with a chainsaw.
“I was just about done [with] the second one and there was a branch that went into the ground,” he continued. “I snipped it and it came back and the saw cut my kneecap.”
Davis said he suffered a three-inch-long cut that “went to the bone.”
“It’s a chainsaw!” Davis said as the others in the room recoiled in horror.
WIP Morning Show cohost Joe DeCamara then explained perhaps the most insane part of Davis’ ordeal.
“I’m going to tell you something that’s even more astounding than Ben taking a chainsaw to his knee,” DeCamara said. “He hasn’t gone to the hospital yet.”
Davis confirmed that he had not been hospitalized, but wasn’t overly concerned.
“It needs stitches, but I’m OK,” he insisted. “I’m fine. I got a bandage on it, it’s good.”
In addition to the bandages, Davis said he had cared for the wound himself with a bit of Neosporin.
“I do have to keep it straight because every time I bend it, it opens up even more,” he added.
Davis acknowledged that he was “very, very fortunate” that the incident wasn’t worse.
“Last night, I was laying in bed with my wife and she said, ‘I’m so sorry this happened to you,’ and I said, ‘I’m actually thrilled it was only as bad as it was.’”
Ben and his wife, Megan, share two sons and two daughters. The couple’s son Tague currently plays baseball at the University of Louisville.
Prior to his broadcasting career, Davis played six seasons in Major League Baseball with the San Diego Padres, Seattle Mariners and Chicago White Sox from 1999 to 2004.
After transitioning from catcher to pitcher, Davis had stints with multiple minor league teams before officially retiring from professional baseball in 2011.
Davis has worked as a Phillies analyst for NBC Sports Philadelphia since 2015.
