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University of Pennsylvania Athletics

2018 Baseball

Chris Reich
Don Felice
Jen Rabasco

3 Gabe Kleiman

  • Height 6-1
  • Weight 185
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown New York, N.Y.
  • Highschool Collegiate School/Bard College

Biography

2018: Secured 11 starts and one relief effort as the Quakers' top pitcher, tossing a team-high 70.1 innings en route to a 2-6 record ... Finished the season with a 4.09 ERA and a team-best 69 strikeouts, good for third in the Ivy League standings ... All-Big 5 selection ... Completed two games, including a career performance at Columbia (4/28) in which he struck out 12 across nine frames ... Also picked up a save at USC Upstate (3/10), throwing 2.0 innings to lock up a victory against the Spartans ... Named team Co-Captain prior to the season, along with fellow senior Andrew Murnane and junior Matt O'Neill ... Tabbed as two-time Big Five Pitcher of the Week following strong weekend performances at Brown (3/24) and at Columbia (4/28), tossing a combined 16.0 frames with 19 strikeouts, 11 hits and just three earned runs.

2017: All-Ivy Honorable Mention ... Went 3-0 with a 4.23 ERA in nine appearances, eight starts ... Finished the year fifth in the Ivy League with a 3.21 ERA in five conference starts ... Struck out 25 over 28.0 innings in Ivy play ... Recorded his first-career complete-game shutout against Cornell (4/23), allowing just six hits while striking out five to clinch the series win ... Pitched at least five innings in his last five starts of the season while allowing no more than three earned runs in all five outings.

2016: Second-Team All-Ivy ... Big Five Student-Athlete of the Year ... All-Big Five ... Went 3-3 with a 2.24 ERA in nine games, all starts ... Second in the Ivy League in ERA ... Had a 1.82 ERA in Ivy-League play, going 2-2 ... Helped the Quakers to their first win of the season, pitching six innings, and allowing two runs against North Florida in a no decision ... Pitched seven innings twice, against Lafayette (3/26), and Columbia (4/29) ... Ivy League wins came over Brown (4/2), and Dartmouth (4/9) ... Pitched six innings and allowed no runs in both of his Ivy victories.

2015: Transferred to Penn; Did not play.

2014 (At Bard): Started 21 games for the Raptors, including six starts as a pitcher ... At the plate, hit .220 with a pair of triples ... On the mound, had a team second-best ERA of 5.06 ... Struck out a team-high 32 in 26.2 innings and teams hit .248 against him, best on the team. 

High School: Lettered three years in baseball ... Served as team captain ... Named to the Ivy Preparatory School League All-Star Baseball Team ... Named First Team All Ivy League at Collegiate ... Lettered two years in soccer ... Certified as adaptive ski instructor.

Personal: Son of Laurin Blumenthal and Norman Kleiman ... Enrolled in the College of Arts and Sciences.

Career Highs
Pitching
Innings Pitched: 9.0, at Columbia (4/28/18)
Strikeouts: 12, at Columbia (4/28/18)
Complete Games: 4 (Last - at Columbia, 4/28/18)

Statistics

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Historical Player Information

  • 3

    2016Sophomore

    LHP
    6'1" 185 lbs
    3
  • 3

    2017Junior

    LHP
    6'1" 185 lbs
    3
  • 3

    2018Senior

    LHP
    6'1" 185 lbs
    3