It’s 2 1/2 months before pitchers and catchers are due to report to spring training. A’s hurler Daniel Mengden already has nailed down his first save.
Mengden was returning to his Houston home when he ran across a rescue in progress, MLB.com reported. Two puppies were trapped in a storm drain.
“It was just kind of dumb luck,” Mengden told MLB.com. “I 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.”
Mengden was told residents in the area had been hearing the puppies for a few weeks.