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===Philadelphia Phillies=== On December 20, 2007, Jenkins signed a two-year, $13 million deal with a vesting option for 2010 with the Philadelphia Phillies.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.espn.com/mlb/news/story?id=3162819|title=Former Brewers outfielder Jenkins agrees with Phils|date=December 20, 2007 |access-date=April 9, 2008}}</ref> He returned to [[Miller Park (Milwaukee)|Miller Park]] in a Phillies uniform on April 23, 2008, to a crowd of just over 30,000. Jenkins was welcomed back with a tribute video, highlighting his ten-year career with the Brewers, and the standing ovation that followed. He received a second ovation while leading off the second inning. Philadelphia would go on to lose the game, 5β4. Jenkins went 0 for 3, with a [[Base on balls|walk]] and a [[stolen base]]. In the postseason, his only hit came on a leadoff double in the bottom of the 6th inning of Game 5 of the [[2008 World Series]]. Jenkinsβ hit set the tone for the finale of the World Series as the Phillies won the World Series and earned Jenkins the first and only [[World Series ring]] of his 11-year career. Jenkins was released by the Phillies at the end of spring training on March 31, {{by|2009}}.<ref>{{cite web |author=norma48 on March 31, 2009 5:15 pm β Reply |url=http://zozone.mlblogs.com/archives/2009/03/phillies_release_jenkins.html |title=Phillies Release Jenkins |publisher=Zozone.mlblogs.com |access-date=April 24, 2013|url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090405204826/http://zozone.mlblogs.com/archives/2009/03/phillies_release_jenkins.html |archive-date=April 5, 2009 |df=mdy-all }}</ref>
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