Former main leaguer Sean Burroughs suffered fentanyl intoxication when he died within the car parking zone at a Lengthy Seashore, California, baseball subject in Might, based on the Los Angeles County health worker.
The health worker launched its findings into Burroughs’ demise this week and dominated it as an accident.
Burroughs died Might 9 on the age of 43. He was discovered unconscious subsequent to his automobile at Stearns Champions Park in Lengthy Seashore after dropping off his son, Knox, for a Little League sport, Lengthy Seashore Little League president Doug Wittman mentioned on the time. Wittman mentioned CPR was carried out on Burroughs in hopes of reviving him however that he remained unresponsive and was pronounced useless on the scene shortly after.
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A two-time winner of the Little League World Sequence and a 2000 Olympic gold medalist, Burroughs was drafted within the first spherical by the San Diego Padres in 1998. The third baseman made his main league debut in April 2002 and recorded the primary walk-off hit for the Padres in Petco Park historical past in 2004. He was out of baseball in 2007 earlier than returning to play from 2011 to 2012.
Burroughs had advised ESPN in a June 2011 interview that he was a substance abuser earlier than vowing to show his life round.
He additionally performed for the Tampa Bay Rays, Arizona Diamondbacks and Minnesota Twins in a profession that spanned 528 video games.