A former Major League Baseball player died Sunday while trying to save swimmers from a rip tide off the coast of South Carolina, authorities said.

The family of Chase Childers, a former professional baseball player and police officer with the Cobb County Police Department in Georgia, is asking for prayers after he drowned Sunday while trying to save five others from drowning on Pawleys Island in South Carolina.

Chase Childers, a former professional baseball player, died while trying to save swimmers in South Carolina. He selflessly jumped into the dangerous rip current to rescue five family members drowning in the water.