Blue Jays manager saved a life

Blue Jays manager saved a life

Toronto Blue Jays manager John Schneider announced Sunday that he saved a woman from choking at a restaurant a few weeks ago.

On the sidelines of the Queen City team’s spring training camp, the 43-year-old said he saw a distressed woman at a restaurant in Dunedin, Fla.

Unable to breathe after choking on a shrimp, the woman was rescued by Schneider, who performed the Heimlich maneuver to save her life.

“I was in the right place at the right time,” the Jays pilot summed up modestly in an interview with Sportsnet. I have learned to do [la manœuvre de Heimlich] in sixth grade, and I hadn’t practiced since. I’m well built, so I think that helped.”

Schneider replaced Charlie Montoyo on an interim basis at the helm of Canada’s only major league baseball team midway through the 2022 season. After leading his team to a 46-28 record, he was officially named manager of the Blue Jays last October.