{"id":606143,"date":"2026-03-04T18:06:25","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T18:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/606143\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T18:06:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T18:06:25","slug":"phillies-announcer-injured-himself-in-wild-chainsaw-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/606143\/","title":{"rendered":"Phillies Announcer Injured Himself in Wild Chainsaw Accident"},"content":{"rendered":"

Philadelphia Phillies TV analyst Ben Davis lived to tell the tale of a wild incident involving a chainsaw at his home.<\/p>\n

Davis, 48, was attempting to deal with the trees in his yard when a near-disaster struck.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have a lot of white pine. They\u2019re terrible trees,\u201d Davis said on the WIP Morning Show<\/a> on Tuesday, March 2. \u201cIf the snow gets on them, they fall. I had two big ones fall. I got done cleaning up one the other day.\u201d<\/p>\n

The process of cleaning up, Davis explained, involved chopping up the trees into small pieces with a chainsaw.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\u201cI was just about done [with] the second one and there was a branch that went into the ground,\u201d he continued. \u201cI snipped it and it came back and the saw cut my kneecap.\u201d<\/p>\n

Davis said he suffered a three-inch-long cut that \u201cwent to the bone.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a chainsaw!\u201d Davis said as the others in the room recoiled in horror.<\/p>\n

WIP Morning Show cohost Joe DeCamara then explained perhaps the most insane part of Davis\u2019 ordeal.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m going to tell you something that\u2019s even more astounding than Ben taking a chainsaw to his knee,\u201d DeCamara said. \u201cHe hasn\u2019t gone to the hospital yet.\u201d<\/p>\n

Davis confirmed that he had not been hospitalized, but wasn\u2019t overly concerned.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIt needs stitches, but I\u2019m OK,\u201d he insisted. \u201cI\u2019m fine. I got a bandage on it, it\u2019s good.\u201d<\/p>\n

In addition to the bandages, Davis said he had cared for the wound himself with a bit of Neosporin.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI do have to keep it straight because every time I bend it, it opens up even more,\u201d he added.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Davis acknowledged that he was \u201cvery, very fortunate\u201d that the incident wasn\u2019t worse.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cLast night, I was laying in bed with my wife and she said, \u2018I\u2019m so sorry this happened to you,\u2019 and I said, \u2018I\u2019m actually thrilled it was only as bad as it was.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Ben and his wife, Megan, share two sons and two daughters. The couple\u2019s son Tague currently plays baseball at the University of Louisville.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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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.\u00a0<\/p>\n

After transitioning from catcher to pitcher, Davis had stints with multiple minor league teams before officially retiring from professional baseball in 2011.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Davis has worked as a Phillies analyst for NBC Sports Philadelphia since 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Philadelphia Phillies TV analyst Ben Davis lived to tell the tale of a wild incident involving a chainsaw…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":606144,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2397],"tags":[5,16221,1296,4,144,25,4216,40,185],"class_list":{"0":"post-606143","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia-phillies","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-celebrity-news","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-philadelphia","13":"tag-philadelphia-phillies","14":"tag-philadelphiaphillies","15":"tag-phillies","16":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116172239570166148","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=606143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/606144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}