The Gateway Grizzlies will begin their 24th season as members of the Frontier Baseball League in May. (Photo: Thomas Grove)
Cedric Williams
Senior Editor
SAUGET, IL — The Gateway Grizzlies announced their full 96-game Frontier League schedule for the upcoming 2025 season on Tuesday.
Gateway will be playing its 24th season and celebrating its 25th anniversary in the Frontier League (there was no season in 2020 due to Covid), by playing 48 home games and 48 road games.
The Grizzlies will open the 2025 season on the road, on Friday, May 9, against the Evansville Otters. That first game will commemorate 110 years of baseball being played at Evansville’s historic Bosse Field.
Gateway’s will enjoy its own 2025 home opener the following Friday, May 16, when the Grizzlies host the Trois-Rivières Aigles. That game will be the first of a three-game set at Grizzlies Ballpark, before Gateway heads back on the road for a second week-long road trip.
Gateway will spend a lot of time on the road to begin the new season. The Grizzlies will play 24 of their first 33 games away from home. That includes most of May and the first half of June.
But beginning in late June and including the first half of July, the Grizzlies will play 18 of the next 21 games at home.
The Frontier League All-Star break will be July 14-17. The location of the 2025 All-Star Game and festivities has not been determined yet.
The second half of the 2025 schedule will be split up more evenly for the Grizzlies. Gateway will play 21 home games and 18 road games in the back half of July and through August.
That stint will include a nine-game homestand July 29-August 7 and a nine-game road trip near the end of the season, between August 19-28.
The final homestand of the season will be August 29-31 against Evansville. Gateway will be looking to make the playoffs for the third straight season, after winning the West Division title in 2023 and finishing second this past season.
The Frontier League as whole will have a new look to it in 2025, as the league expands to 18 teams, after adding the Mississippi Mud Monsters and Down East Bird Dawgs to the league next season.
Adding new teams caused the league to realign its divisions. The new Frontier League will now have two conferences and four divisions.
There will be nine teams in each conference, with each conference containing one division with five teams and a second division with four teams.
Gateway will compete in the Midwest Conference as members of the West Division, alongside Mississippi, Joliet, Schaumburg, and Windy City. The other division in the Midwest Conference will be the Central Division, which will include Evansville, Florence, Lake Erie, and Washington.
The other conference will be called the Atlantic Conference with the two divisions called the North Division and the East Division. The North Division will be made up of New England, Ottawa, Québec, Tri-City, and Trois-Rivières. The East Division will include Down East, New Jersey, New York, and Sussex County.
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