Kelly Kline has an overall career batting average of .388 in three years with the Muhlenberg softball team. She also has a batting average of .388 with runners in scoring position.
That’s not some coincidence: When Kline comes to the plate, every Mule outside the dugout (except for the one on the on-deck circle) is in scoring position. It took her less than two seasons to break the school record for career home runs (21 and counting) and less than three to set a new standard for career RBI (118 and counting).
Kline owns two of the top three single-season RBI totals in program history – mostly due to her clutch hitting and teammates getting on in front of her, some due simply to her power. There’s only one teammate she’s driven in more than herself.
That and more in this breakdown of Kelly Kline’s 118 RBI:
by opponent
- Swarthmore – 10
- Gettysburg – 9
- Elizabethtown – 8
- Eastern, Haverford, McDaniel, Washington – 7 each
- Misericordia – 6
- Centenary, Ursinus – 5 each
- Dickinson, Drew, Franklin & Marshall, Northwestern, Scranton – 4 each
- Note: Kline has driven in runs against 30 different opponents. The only team she played against more than once without an RBI is Lebanon Valley.
by game site
- away – 49
- home – 41
- neutral – 28
by game result
- Muhlenberg win – 92
- Muhlenberg loss – 26
by game type
- Centennial Conference regular season – 55 in 46 games
- non-CC regular season – 60 in 62 games
- CC playoffs – 2 in 6 games
- NCAA Tournament – 1 in 2 games
by player driven in
- Erica Wenzel – 26
- Kelly Kline – 21
- Devon Barber – 19
- Alyssa Schell – 11
- Ashley Brewer – 10
- Colleen O’Donnell – 10
- Chelsea Benjamin – 8
- Jessica Costa – 6
- Elizabeth Sullivan – 4
- Nicole Iannarone – 3
- Note: The teammate with the most runs scored without ever getting driven in by Kline is Brittany Blohm with 24.
by inning
- first – 23
- second – 14
- third – 26
- fourth – 15
- fifth – 14
- sixth – 14
- seventh – 9
- eighth – 3
by at-bat result
- single – 40
- double – 28
- triple – 4
- home run – 37
- sacrifice fly – 6
- groundout – 1
- walk – 2
miscellaneous
- Kline drove in a run to give the Mules a lead 23 times, and her RBI tied a game four times
- 17 times, Kline drove in the first Muhlenberg run(s) of a game
- Kline’s lone walkoff RBI came against Misericordia in 2013