"Pat Burrell retired on Monday, ending a 12-year career that included both one of the biggest hits and biggest misses in Rays history.

In the 2008 World Series, playing for the Phillies against the Rays, Burrell smacked a seventh-inning double off J.P. Howell that led to the run that clinched the resumed Game 5, and thus the championship, for Philadelphia.

Burrell then signed a hefty free-agent deal with the Rays — $16 million over two years — and doomed them again, ill-fitted for the DH role he signed up for, hitting just .218 with 16 homers and 77 RBIs and getting released six weeks into his second season."