Ex-Mets pitcher Jenrry Mejia narrowly escapes death as Venezuela earthquake strikes hotel thanks to elevators divine intervention

Former Mets pitcher Jenrry Mejia credited “divine intervention” for saving his life when his elevator brought him to the wrong floor inside his Venezuelan hotel moments before the building collapsed during an earthquake that left over 200 people dead.Mejia, 36, had just wrapped up his gym session and was heading back to his room as the powerful quakes struck the Caracas region 39 seconds apart, the pitcher told Dominican sports radio show Mañana Deportiva, according to Dominican newspaper Diario Libre.Mejia boarded an elevator to return to his hotel room, but he was instead brought to the building’s ground floor and main exit when another person requested the lift.“I was in the gym area.

And at that moment, I took the elevator to leave,” Mejia said.“In fact, I had pressed number six, which was where my floor was.

But … I think it was God because instead of going up, it went down to the basement.”Mejia called it an act of “divine intervention” that brought him to the bottom floor and out of the hotel, 40 seconds before it crumbled.“The door opened directly into the lobby.That’s when I came out and the building started to collapse,” he said. Mejia, who pitches for La Guaira Delfines of the Venezuelan Major League, says he helped an elderly man out of the hotel, and believes they were the only two who survived the deadly destruction.“With the agility I have, I helped an elderly gentleman.

I was able to drag him away, take him with me,” he told the station.“I think only he and I (came out alive), the others are still there, trapped under the rubble.”The city of La Guaira, located 15 miles north of the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, was the hardest-hit area in the South American country during the earthquake.The magnitude-7.2 quake struck roughly 100 miles west of Caracas near San Felipe at 6 p.m.

Wednesday, before an even bigger 7.5-magnitude temblor hit the town of Yumare, 27 miles away, 39 seconds later, accordi...