{"id":392684,"date":"2024-05-11T00:51:19","date_gmt":"2024-05-11T00:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=392684"},"modified":"2024-05-11T01:03:20","modified_gmt":"2024-05-11T01:03:20","slug":"former-mlb-first-round-pick-sean-burroughs-died-while-coaching-sons-little-league-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=392684","title":{"rendered":"Former MLB first round pick Sean Burroughs died while coaching son&#039;s Little League game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Major League Baseball player and Olympic gold medalist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/mlb\/llws\/2024\/05\/10\/sean-burroughs-dies-43-mlb-player-olympic-champ-llws-winner\/73647221007\/\">Sean Burroughs<\/a> tragically passed away on Thursday night while coaching his son&#8217;s Little League team.<\/p>\n<p>Burroughs was coaching in the same Long Beach Little League (Long Beach, California) system he played in growing up. In fact, Burroughs was a part of the Long Beach team that won the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.littleleague.org\/history\/world-series\/rosters\/year-1992\/\">Little League World Series<\/a> in 1992.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/sports\/mlb\/former-mlb-player-sean-burroughs-dies-after-collapsing-coaching-sons-little-league-game\/ar-BB1mbkR6?ocid=BingNewsSerp\">Burroughs passed away<\/a> following a collapse during a Thursday night game. He was 43 years old.<\/p>\n<p>Taken in the first round of the 1998 MLB draft by the San Diego Padres, Burroughs was the ninth overall selection that year. He won a gold medal with Team USA during the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/olympics\/news\/2000-us-olympic-baseball-team-tommy-lasorda-doug-mientkiewicz-ben-sheets\">2000 Olympics in Sydney, Australia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The passing of Burroughs was confirmed on social media on Friday by the Long Beach Little League&#8217;s board of directors.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Burroughs spent part of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/b\/burrose01.shtml\">seven years<\/a> in the MLB where he was a third baseman. He was a career .278 hitter who had 12 home runs and 143 runs batted in.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Former MLB third baseman Sean Burroughs has tragically passed away.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":286601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392684"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=392684"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":392686,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392684\/revisions\/392686"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/286601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=392684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=392684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=392684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}