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2024 Baseball Roster

15 Jake Berger

  • Height 6-3
  • Weight 195
  • B/T L/R
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Boston, Mass.
  • High School Buckingham Browne & Nichols School
  • Position Infielder
  • House Affiliation Pforzheimer
  • Concentration Economics

Biography

2024 • Senior

Earned Academic All-Ivy honors … Served the team as a captain … Played in and started 38 games; made all 38 starts at third base … Hit .288 on the year with 28 runs, 42 hits, seven doubles, 23 RBIs, and one home run … Tallied a .363 OBP, .356 slugging percentage, and .719 OPS … Ranked second on the team in runs (28), doubles (seven), and walks (18) and third in average (.288), OPS (.719), and hits (42) … Led the Ivy League in sacrifice flies (five) … Totaled 12 multi-hit games and four multi-RBI games … Started all 21 Ivy League games; one of four Crimson to do so … During Ivy play, ranked second on the team in doubles (four) and walks (11) … In Ivy play, hit .278 with 15 runs, 22 hits, four doubles, 10 RBIs, one home run, and .372 OBP … Went 3-for-5 with two RBIs at The Citadel (Mar. 2) … Finished 2-for-4 with three RBIs, a double, and a run vs. Penn State (Mar. 10) … Notched two hits, two runs, and a double vs. Massachusetts (Apr. 9) … Compiled two hits, two runs, a home run, and an RBI at Princeton (Apr. 14) … Went 4-for-5 with four RBIs, four runs, and a double vs. Stonehill (Apr. 16) … Notched two hits in each game of the Dartmouth series (Apr. 20-21). 

2023 • Junior

Earned a spot on the Ivy League All-Tournament Team … Gained selection to the NEIBA New England All-Star Game … Played in all 44 games; one of three Crimson to do so … Made 43 starts with 29 starts at third base and 14 as the designated hitter … Ranked second on the team in hits (47), home runs (six), RBIs (32), slugging (.472), and walks (25) while ranking third in OPS (.863), runs (31), OBP (.391), and stolen bases (six) … Hit .292 on the year with 11 doubles … Led the league in sacrifice flies (six) and ranked sixth in walks (25) … Started all 21 Ivy League games, one of three Crimson to do so … Posted a .299 average in conference play with 17 runs, 23 hits, six doubles, three homers, 19 RBIs, and a .412 OBP  … Paced the team with 14 multi-hit games and nine multi-RBI games … Went 3-for-6 at FIU (Mar. 5) … Finished 2-for-4 with three runs, three RBIs, and a home run at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi (Mar. 18) … Hit a game-tying two-run homer in the eighth at Penn (Mar. 24) … Posted a 4-for-5 effort against Princeton (Apr. 2) … Went 3-for-3 in the Ivy League Tournament vs. Princeton (May 19). 

2022 • Sophomore

Started all 41 games, one of only two Crimson to do so; made all 41 starts at shortstop … Earned First Team CoSIDA Academic All-District … Ranked fifth in the Ivy League in walks (29) … In conference-only play stood seventh in the league in home runs (five) and walks (15) … Led the team in runs (35) and walks (29); ranked second in OPS (.890), doubles (10), homers (seven), RBIs (29), and slugging (.484) … Stared all 21 Ivy League games, one of three Crimson to do so … In Ivy play only, led the team in runs (19), homers (five), walks (15), and OBP (.424); ranked second in OPS (.978), hits (26), RBIs (18), and slugging (.554) and third in doubles (five) … Hit .281 on the year with 35 runs, 43 hits, 10 doubles, seven homers, 29 RBIs, a .406 OBP, and .484 slugging percentage … In Ivy play, hit .313 with 19 runs, 26 hits, five doubles, five homers, 18 RBIs, a .424 OBP, and .554 slugging percentage … Totaled 12 multi-hit games and eight multi-RBI games on the year … Tallied a season-long reached base safely streak of 29 games … Posted a season-long eight-game hit streak … Went 3-for-5 with two RBIs, a home run, and a run at Columbia in game one (Apr. 16) … Tallied two hits, four RBIs, three runs, and a home run at Princeton (Apr. 24) … Compiled two hits, three RBIs, and two doubles at Yale (May 15) … Totaled two hits, three runs, three walks, and a double vs. Brown in game one (Apr. 2). 

2021 • First-year

Team did not compete due to COVID-19.

Before Harvard

Four-year letter winner and starter at shortstop for the baseball team … Named Team Captain in his junior and senior seasons … Member of the 2019 Area Code Team … Four-year starter at shortstop for Florida Travel Baseball … Silver medalist in community service … Also enjoys saltwater fishing … Father, Dave Berger ’86, rowed crew for the Crimson … Mother, Micki, graduated from Penn where she was a part of the swim team.

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Historical Player Information

  • 1

    2021First-Year

    INF
    6'3" 185 lbs
    1
  • 15

    2022Sophomore

    Infield
    6'3" 185 lbs
    15
  • 15

    2023Junior

    Infield
    6'3" 185 lbs
    15
  • 15

    2024Senior

    Infielder
    6'3" 195 lbs
    15