A scout for Major League Baseball’s (MLB) Kansas City Royals on Wednesday rescued a drunk Taiwanese woman who fell into the sea at Taitung County’s Taitung Seaside Park.
Nathan D. Miller, 51, told reporters yesterday that he noticed the woman behaving strangely as she walked toward the water while he was walking along the shore.
The woman then entered the water.
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“She kept calling for help, but the waves were so loud that no one could hear her. I didn’t hear her either, but I noticed something was wrong,” Miller said.
Despite being unable to swim and afraid of the water, Miller said he went into the sea to help and, with the assistance of three students nearby, pulled the woman to shore.
He hesitated at first, as he has an 18-year-old son and a 10-year-old daughter, Miller said.
“I was thinking about my daughter, so I did it carefully,” he said.
After the rescue, Miller had multiple cuts and abrasions on his legs caused by rocks, but declined being sent to a hospital.
He said he first came to Taiwan in 1998 and has lived in the country since 2005.
Miller showed reporters a ring bearing the Kansas City Royals logo and said he has worked as a scout for the team for more than a decade.
He said he was in Taitung to scout a junior-high school pitcher competing in a local tournament.