Joe Klink

{{short description|American baseball player (born 1962)}}

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{{Infobox baseball biography

|name=Joe Klink

|image=Joe Klink 1987.jpg

|caption=Klink in 1987

|position=Pitcher

|bats=Left

|throws=Left

|birth_date={{Birth date and age|1962|2|3}}

|birth_place=Johnstown, Pennsylvania, U.S.

|debutleague = MLB

|debutdate=April 9

|debutyear=1987

|debutteam=Minnesota Twins

|finalleague = MLB

|finaldate=May 17

|finalyear=1996

|finalteam=Seattle Mariners

|statleague = MLB

|stat1label=Win–loss record

|stat1value=10–6

|stat2label=Earned run average

|stat2value=4.26

|stat3label=Strikeouts

|stat3value=94

|teams=

• Minnesota Twins ({{mlby|1987}})
• Oakland Athletics ({{mlby|1990}}–{{mlby|1991}})
• Florida Marlins ({{mlby|1993}})
• Seattle Mariners ({{mlby|1996}})

}}

Joseph Charles Klink (born February 3, 1962) is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1987 to 1996 for the Minnesota Twins, Oakland Athletics, Florida Marlins, and Seattle Mariners. Klink once went 90 consecutive games without allowing a home run, the longest by a left-handed pitcher since at least 1957 and possibly the longest such streak of all time.{{citation needed|date=May 2018}}

Klink attended St. Thomas University, and in 1982 he played collegiate summer baseball with the Harwich Mariners of the Cape Cod Baseball League.{{cite web|author= |url=http://capecodbaseball.org.ismmedia.com/ISM3/std-content/repos/Top/2012website/archives/Current%20Year/All_Time_MLB_CCBL_Alumni.pdf |title=Major League Baseball Players From the Cape Cod League |publisher=capecodbaseball.org |date= |accessdate=September 25, 2019}} He was selected by the New York Mets in the 36th round of the 1983 MLB Draft.