Quincy GEms
Appreciate your reporting. I was very sad to hear the news of the Gems leaving or at least going dormant for 2024. One question I have: Is it possible the team could be sold to another owner and the team staying in Quincy? From the press release, it almost seems to me the Louthans may…
Read Full Article BURLINGTON, Iowa — Matt Schsrk had two RBIs in Wednesday night’s final game of the season to break the single-season record, but the Quincy Gems closed the season with an 11-5 loss to the Burlington Bees in a Prospect League game at Community Field. Schark’s two-out, two-run double to left field was part of a…
Read Full Article QUINCY — A two-run rally in the ninth saved the Quincy Gems’ postseason chances, but the Gems couldn’t come up with two runs in the 11th to keep them alive as they lost 6-4 to the Clinton LumberKings on Sunday night in a Prospect League game at QU Stadium. The Gems (27-31 , 14-17 second…
Read Full Article QUINCY — The Quincy Gems’ chances of reaching the postseason took a hit Friday night. With Clinton losing 6-3 at home to O’Fallon, a victory would have put the Gems within a half-game of first place in the Prospect League’s Great River Division. However, the Gems mustered little offense in a 2-1 setback to the…
Read Full Article BURLINGTON, Iowa — Jacob Winstead pitched his best game of the season Thursday night, allowing two runs in seven innings as the Quincy Gems defeated the Burlington Bees 7-2 in a Prospect League game at Community Field. The victory, combined with Clinton’s 16-5 loss on Thursday to Illinois Valley, puts the Gems (27-29, 14-15 second…
Read Full Article QUINCY — Jake Skrine’s home run in the bottom of the ninth briefly saved the Quincy Gems, but too many walks led to the Gems’ undoing in a 9-6 loss in 10 innings on Wednesday night to the Burlington Bees in a Prospect League game at QU Stadium. Skrine led off the ninth when he…
Read Full Article O’FALLON, Mo. — An 11-3 setback in the first game of a Tuesday night Prospect League doubleheader gave the Quincy Gems their eighth loss in 10 games. The Gems rebounded to defeat the O’Fallon Hoots 4-1 in the second game at CarShield Field, but Clinton’s victory over Burlington earlier in the day cost the Gems…
Read Full Article QUINCY — A big inning put the Quincy Gems ahead. An even bigger inning put the Gems behind for good. A seven-run fourth inning put the Alton River Dragons in the lead, and they went on to defeat the Gems 11-5 on Saturday night in a Prospect League game at QU Stadium. The game was…
Read Full Article BURLINGTON, Iowa — Starter Jake Stipp allowed just two runs in six innings of work, and reliever Philip Reinhardt tossed three innings of scoreless relief as the Quincy Gems defeated the Burlington Bees 9-2 on Friday night in a Prospect League game at Community Field. The victory keeps the Gems (25-25, 12-11 second half) in…
Read Full Article QUINCY — Tyler Youngblood’s two-out two-run single in the bottom of the sixth inning broke a 5-5 tie and gave the Quincy Gems a 7-5 victory over the O’Fallon Hoots in the first game of a Prospect League doubleheader on Thursday night at QU Stadium. Quincy had just five hits and fanned 13 times in…
Read Full Article QUINCY — A doubleheader loss by the Quincy Gems on Wednesday has turned the race for the second half championship of the Prospect League’s Great River Division into a free-for-all. The Gems rallied three times to tie the score but never led in a 10-7 loss in the first game at QU Stadium. The Gems…
Read Full Article QUINCY — Four unearned runs in the second inning put the Quincy Gems in a hole they couldn’t climb out of in a 9-6 loss to the Burlington Bees in a Prospect League game on Tuesday night at QU Stadium. The Gems’ Tyler Carpenter had four hits, including a solo homer in the sixth inning…
Read Full Article SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — The Springfield Sliders scored twice in the bottom of the eighth to break a tie score and defeat the Quincy Gems 7-5 on Monday night in a Prospect League game at Robin Roberts Field. Jacob Mulcahy’s triple off Gems reliever Jacob Winstead drove in the go-ahead run with no outs in the…
Read Full Article BURLINGTON, Iowa — Philip Reinhardt, a freshman pitcher from Maryville University, shined in his Quincy Gems debut, allowing one run over six innings in an 8-4 victory over the Burlington Bees in a Prospect League game at Community Field on Sunday afternoon. The Gems (23-20, 10-6 second half) now have a 2 1/2-game lead over…
Read Full Article QUINCY — Matt Shover allowed just two hits over six shutout innings, and reliever Tyler Carpenter finished with three hitless innings as the Quincy Gems cruised to a 9-0 victory over the Burlington Bees in a Prospect League game on Saturday night at QU Stadium. The victory puts the Gems (22-20, 9-6 second half) two…
Read Full Article SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Twelve runs were more than plenty for the Quincy Gems in the first game of a Prospect League doubleheader on Tuesday night at Robin Roberts Stadium. Fourteen runs weren’t enough in the second game. The Gems jumped out to a 5-0 lead in the first inning of the first game and went…
Read Full Article CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. — Jacob Winstead stranded the tying run at third base in the sixth inning, then set down the Cape Catfish in order in the seventh inning to help the Quincy Gems win 3-2 in the second game of a Prospect League doubleheader on Sunday at Capaha Field. The Catfish won the first…
Read Full Article NORMAL, Ill. — Gino D’Alessio’s home run in the eighth inning gave the Quincy Gems a 4-3 victory over the Normal Cornbelters in the first game of a Friday night doubleheader, but the Gems were limited to six hits in a 4-2 loss in the nightcap at the Corn Crib. The Gems (19-18, 6-4 second…
Read Full Article QUINCY — Andrew Fay’s first home run of the season highlighted a 10-run fourth inning, and Alec Patino’s first home run of the season ended the game by the 10-run rule as the Quincy Gems defeated the Normal CornBelters 14-4 in a Prospect League game on Thursday night at QU Stadium. The Gems (18-17, 5-3…
Read Full Article QUINCY — Logan Tabeling pitched 5⅔ innings of one-run baseball, and the Quincy Gems overcame a 50-minute lightning delay before the seventh inning to defeat the Springfield Sliders 6-2 on Wednesday night in a Prospect League game at QU Stadium. Tabeling allowed an RBI single to Hunter Phelps in the fourth inning but was in…
Read Full Article QUINCY — After blowing a five-run lead, the Quincy Gems missed chances to tie the game in the eighth and ninth innings and lost 13-12 to the Cape Catfish on Tuesday night in a Prospect League game at QU Stadium. The Catfish trailed 8-3 after six innings. Their rally started with two runs in the…
Read Full Article QUINCY — The Quincy Gems scored three runs in the top of the eighth to tie the score at 4-4, but they gave up two in the bottom of the eighth to lose 6-4 to the Clinton LumberKings on Sunday night in a Prospect League game at NelsonCorp Field. The Gems (16-16, 3-2 in second…
Read Full Article QUINCY — The Quincy Gems took advantage of nine walks and four hit batters to salvage the second game of a doubleheader on Saturday night, defeating the Normal CornBelters 11-3 in Prospect League action at QU Stadium. Normal won the first game 9-2. The doubleheader was played before a crowd of 1,843, the second largest…
Read Full Article QUINCY — Ryan Hutchinson’s RBI single to left field in the bottom of the ninth inning was the finishing touch on a rally from a five-run deficit as the Quincy Gems defeated the Normal CornBelters 7-6 on Friday night in a Prospect League game in front of the biggest crowd of the season ar QU…
Read Full Article CLINTON, Iowa — The Quincy Gems opened the second half of the Prospect League season by scoring three runs in the top of the eighth inning to break a 3-3 tie and defeat the Clinton LumberKings 6-3 on Thursday night at NelsonCorp Field. Matt Schark led off the eighth for the Gems with a single…
Read Full Article The second half of the 2021 Prospect League season begins Thursday. Teams like the Quincy Gems (13-14), who finished in third place in the West Conference’s Great River Division, will have a chance to make the postseason by winning the second-half title. Normal (14-12) won the first half, finishing a half-game ahead of Burlington (15-14)…
Read Full Article QUINCY — Peter McManus missed his favorite player. McManus, 48, became a fan of Tyler Clark-Chiapparelli during the 2019 season for the Quincy Gems. No summer collegiate baseball leagues had games in 2020, and Clark-Chiapparelli started the 2021 summer season with the Morehead City (N.C.) Marlins of the Coastal Plain League. McManus, who is developmentally…
Read Full Article QUINCY — Matt Schark’s walk-up music was changed before he stepped to the plate with two outs in the bottom of the ninth inning. The catchy children’s song “Baby Shark” blared instead throughout QU Stadium’s loudspeakers. Three pitches later, Schark had taken a bite out of the Springfield Sliders. Schark belted a home run to…
Read Full Article ALTON, Ill. — Sunday night’s Prospect League game at Hopkins Field between the Alton River Dragons and Quincy Gems was suspended after four innings because of lightning and rain, with the host team leading 4-3. The game will be completed at a later date in Quincy because the Gems do not return to Alton this…
Read Full Article QUINCY — Dane Thomas’ single to left field scored the tying and go-ahead runs in the bottom of the ninth inning as the Quincy Gems defeated the Clinton LumberKings 4-3 in a Prospect League game on Saturday night at QU Stadium. Jack Payne picked up his first victory of the season after he pitched a…
Read Full Article O’FALLON, Mo. — After winning the first game of a Prospect League doubleheader 5-2, the Quincy Gems fell one run shy of a sweep with a 4-3 loss to the O’Fallon Hoots on Thursday night at CarShield Field. Hoots reliever Anthony Klein kept the Gems at bay in the final three innings of the second…
Read Full Article QUINCY — Not even a home run with two outs in the ninth inning could spoil Hunter Wienhoff’s relief performance. The Quincy High School graduate allowed a home run to O’Fallon’s Ryan Malzahn on a 3-2 count, then struck out Cade Hohl to complete the Quincy Gems’ 4-2 victory over the Hoots in a Prospect…
Read Full Article QUINCY — A two-run home run in the top of the ninth inning by Zane Zielinski broke a 3-3 tie and gave the Burlington Bees a 5-3 victory over the Quincy Gems on Tuesday night in a Prospect League game at QU Stadium. After Marcos Sanchez drew a one-out walk, Zielinski drove Michael Nunez’s first…
Read Full Article QUINCY — The Quincy Gems led 5-4 after scoring four runs in the top of the sixth, but three Gems relievers allowed nine runs over the next three innings in a 13-5 loss to the Burlington Bees on Sunday night in a Prospect League game at Community Field. The Gems (9-11) are a game and…
Read Full Article QUINCY — Connery O’Donnell pitched himself into the biggest jam of the night, and he pitched himself out of it. O’Donnell loaded the bases in the eighth inning with no outs on a hit batter, a walk and a bloop single as the Quincy Gems held on to a 4-3 lead over the Cape Catfish.…
Read Full Article QUINCY — Brant Hogue pitched 6 ⅔ innings and allowed one run, and the Quincy Gems blew open a close game with eight runs in the sixth inning in a 10-2 victory over the Illinois Valley Pistol Shrimp on Friday night in a Prospect League game at QU Stadium. The Gems (8-10) have won six…
Read Full Article QUINCY — With one out in the bottom of the ninth inning, Matt Schark singled past a drawn-in infield to score Jake Skrine with the winning run as the Quincy Gems defeated the Illinois Valley Pistol Shrimp 7-6 in a Prospect League game Thursday night at QU Stadium. Skrine, who is hitting .500 but doesn’t…
Read Full Article PERU, Ill. — The Quincy Gems were no match for Ryan Eiermann, who pitched 7⅔ innings of shutout baseball as the Illinois Valley Pistol Shrimp won 2-0 on Wednesday night in a Prospect League game at Veterans Memorial Stadium. Eiermann struck out 12 Gems in the game. His 43 strikeouts in 26 innings lead the…
Read Full Article PERU, Ill. — Starter Ryan Towers pitched 6 ⅓ innings, and the Quincy Gems took the lead for good with a three-run sixth inning in a 6-3 victory over the Illinois Valley Pistol Shrimp in a Prospect League game on Tuesday night at Veterans Memorial Park. The Gems have won four of their last six…
Read Full Article NORMAL, Ill. — Matt Schark hit a pair of two-run homers to move into a tie for the Prospect League lead as the Quincy Gems knocked off the Normal CornBelters 13-7 on Saturday night in the Corn Crib. Schark hit his fifth home run of the season, a two-run blast, after Danny Sperling walked to…
Read Full Article ALTON, Ill. — The Quincy Gems trailed 8-1 after three innings and never recovered in an 11-6 loss to the Alton River Dragons on Friday night at Lloyd Hopkins Field in a Prospect League game. Starting pitcher Matt Shover took the loss, allowing five hits, four walks and eight runs in three innings. Zach Carden…
Read Full Article QUINCY — Masen Palmier finally slowed down the Quincy Gems. The Gems had scored 47 runs in their last three games, but Palmier shut out the Gems for the first six innings as the O’Fallon Hoots won 5-1 on Thursday night in a Prospect League game at QU Stadium. Palmer allowed four hits and four…
Read Full Article ALTON, Ill. — The Quincy Gems continued their torrid hitting pace on Wednesday night, pounding out 18 hits and winning their second consecutive game by the 10-run rule in a 16-4 decision over the Alton River Dragons in a Prospect League game at Lloyd Hopkins Field. The Gems (4-8) have collected 51 hits and scored…
Read Full Article QUINCY — The Quincy Gems lost eight of their first 10 games, but new faces in the lineup may be helping turn their season around. Five players in Tuesday night’s lineup were either playing their first or second game for the Gems this summer. They combined for 12 hits and 11 runs in a 16-3…
Read Full Article QUINCY — The Quincy Gems had their most prolific offensive night of the season, scoring 15 runs on 17 hits. It still wasn’t enough. The Clinton LumberKings rallied from a four-run deficit, then lost a four-run lead but scored six runs in the final two innings to defeat the Gems 18-15 in a Prospect League…
Read Full Article CLINTON, Iowa — Ryan Hutchinson’s single in the sixth inning was the only hit for the Quincy Gems in a 7-0 loss Saturday night to the Clinton LumberKings in a Prospect League game at NelsonCorp Field. Jakob Kirman pitched seven innings for Clinton, walking none and striking out four. T.J. Deardorff and Casey Day both…
Read Full Article CLINTON, Iowa — After scoring the game’s first run, the Quincy Gems gave up the next nine runs and suffered a 9-5 loss on Friday night to the Clinton LumberKings in a Prospect League game at NelsonCorp Field. Alec Patino’s RBI single put Quincy on top in the first inning. Starter Brant Hogue allowed four…
Read Full Article QUINCY — Justin Paulsen could have had Gino D’Alessio bunt. After Andrew Fay and Bryce Miller opened the bottom of the eighth inning with walks, the Quincy Gems manager could have asked for a sacrifice bunt to move the tying and winning runs into scoring position as the Gems trailed 5-4. Instead, Paulsen had D’Alessio…
Read Full Article QUINCY — The inability of the Springfield Sliders’ outfielders to see the ball in the twilight allowed the Quincy Gems to climb back into the game, but the Gems squandered opportunities to take the lead in the seventh and eighth innings as they lost 8-7 in a Prospect League baseball game on Wednesday night at…
Read Full Article QUINCY — Quincy Gems pitchers allowed 12 hits and 12 walks, and Gems hitters had just four hits in a 13-3 loss to the Springfield Sliders in a Prospect League baseball game on Tuesday night at QU Stadium. The Gems have lost four straight since winning the season opener. Springfield scored three times in the…
Read Full Article QUINCY, Ill. — Six hits, two walks and three errors in the first three innings put the Quincy Gems in a 7-0 hole, and the Normal CornBelters went on to win 15-5 on Sunday night in a Prospect League game at QU Stadium. The loss extends Quincy’s losing streak to three after it won its…
Read Full Article NORMAL, Ill. — The Quincy Gems had the tying runs on base with two outs in the ninth inning, but Ryan Hutchinson grounded out to second for the final out in a 4-2 loss to the Clinton LumberKings in the Prospect League home opener at QU Stadium. Alex Wattermann singled with one out, moved to…
Read Full Article NORMAL, Ill. — The Quincy Gems led 4-1 entering the bottom of the seventh, but the Normal CornBelters used three hits and seven walks to plate seven runs in the seventh and eighth innings to win 8-4 in a Prospect League baseball game on Friday night at the Corn Crib. Quincy broke a 1-1 tie…
Read Full Article SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Jake Stipp allowed one run over 4 2/3 innings of relief, and Jason Jennerjohn got the Quincy Gems out of a jam in the eighth inning in a 3-2 victory over the Springfield Sliders on Thursday night as the Prospect League kicked off its season. Bailey Wendell started on the mound for…
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