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2008 Baseball

3 Michael Gatti

  • Height 5-10
  • Weight 190
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Watchung, N.J.
  • Highschool Watchung Hills

Biography

2008: Appeared in 35 games for the Red and Blue, making 28 starts in centerfield ... Finished the season with a .343 batting average ... Established career highs in every offensive category ... Led Penn with six stolen bases ... Ended season on a six-game hitting streak (4/23-4/27) ... Went 9-for-20 (.450) over that span ... Went 2-for-4 with a run scored in his final collegiate game against Columbia (4/27) ... Went 2-for-4 with two RBI and a run scored against Cornell (4/12) ... Went 3-for-6 with two runs scored and an RBI against Yale (3/29) in Penn’s 9-9 tie with the Bulldogs ... Scored the tying run in the bottom of the 11th inning.

 

2007: Played in 14 games ... Batted .250 ... Scored a run in three straight games from 4/18-24 ... Had two hits and drove in two runs at Brown (4/9). 

2006: Played in 22 games and started 19 ... Batted .186 on the season ... Drove in two runs against Cornell (4/15) ... Scored two runs at Dartmouth (4/9) ... Went 3-for-7 in doubleheader against Yale (4/2) ... Scored two runs versus Saint Joseph’s (3/29).

2005: Made 19 appearances ... Went 2-for-5 with a double and an RBI in a doubleheader versus Cornell (4/23) ... Had a pinch-hit and first collegiate RBI vs. Princeton (4/17) ... Went 1-for-2 against Brown (4/9) ... Reached base in both games of the Harvard doubleheader as a pinch hitter (4/5) ... Registered first collegiate hit with a single against Hartford (3/19) ... Registered first collegiate at bat at Fresno State (3/8) ... Made collegiate debut against Monmouth (3/6).

High School: Three-year letterwinner in baseball and four-year letterwinner in wrestling ... Served as captain of both teams as a senior ... Named all-county and all-conference in baseball as a senior ... Member of the Northeastern Sectional championship (20-9) team as a senior ... Three-time district champion, two-time county and regional champion and state champion in wrestling ... NJSIAA Scholar Athlete.

Personal: Born Feb. 25, 1986 ... Son of Joe and Cheryl Gatti ... Enrolled in the College of Arts and Sciences as an economics major.

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Historical Player Information

  • 3

    2005Freshman

    OF
    5'11" 190 lbs
    3
  • 3

    2006Sophomore

    OF
    5'11" 190 lbs
    3
  • 3

    2007Junior

    OF
    5'10" 190 lbs
    3
  • 3

    2008Senior

    OF
    5'10" 190 lbs
    3