A report by Joey Nowak of MLB.com confirmed that the 35-year old outfielder Pat Burrell, retired form Major League Baseball on Monday.
Burrell spent eight years playing left field for the Phillies, from 2000-2008.
He played for the Tampa Bay Rays from 2009 to part of 2010, before being traded to the San Francisco Giants, where he spent the rest of 2010 and 2011.
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Burrell won the World Series with the Phillies in 2008, in what would then prove to be his final year on the team.
In game 5 of that series, Burrell hit a 400 foot double off the inclined wall in center field that brought Geoff Jenkins (who hit a lead off-double in the resumption of the game) home, giving the Phillies a 3-2 lead in the sixth.
The Phillies won game 5 to clinch the series over the Tampa Bay Rays, by a final of 4-3.
Two years later, Burrell won another World Series with the Giants in 2010 (that one still hurts).
Burrell played 12 seasons in the Majors, hitting for a .253 career average, with 1393 hits, 292 home runs, and 976 RBI's.
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