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MLB Pitcher Rescues 2 Puppies From Storm Drain In What May Be The Most Miraculous Video You’ll See All Day [WATCH]

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This may be one of the greatest stories you’ll read all day … Oakland A’s pitcher Daniel Mengden helped to rescue not one — but two puppies who’d fallen into a storm drain Monday.

Mengden said he’d been driving home in Houston, Texas, when he noticed a group of people pulled over on the side of the road, gathered around a storm drain. He stopped to see what the gathering was all about. (RELATED: Here Are The Six Cities The MLB Wants To Expand Into)

CHICAGO, IL - JUNE 23: Starting poitcher Daniel Mengden #33 of the Oakland Athletics delivers the ball against the Chicago White Sox at Guaranteed Rate Field on June 23, 2018 in Chicago, Illinois. (Photo by Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images)

CHICAGO, IL – JUNE 23: Starting poitcher Daniel Mengden #33 of the Oakland Athletics delivers the ball against the Chicago White Sox at Guaranteed Rate Field on June 23, 2018 in Chicago, Illinois. (Photo by Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images)

“It was just kind of dumb luck,” Mengden explained to MLB.com. “I was driving home from working out this morning and noticed some people were outside their cars, kind of blocking the road. I went up to them and they said they’d been trying to get these puppies out.”

The puppies were familiar to the locals in the area. They were known to be too timid and scared of humans and therefore hadn’t been brought in to a shelter.

“We could hear them crying so we knew they were still alive,” Rick D’Amico, one of the first bystanders to realize the puppies were in trouble, told KHOU 11 News. So they called Animal Rescue and saved two lives.

The process was captured on camera:

If this doesn’t warm your heart, I don’t know what will. Major congrats to the A’s for signing such a stand-up guy.

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