Pistol Shrimp Reveal 2025 Schedule

Peru, IL - The Pistol Shrimp know the route to defend their Prospect League Championship. The Prospect League released the complete 2025 league schedule today, including the 56-game regular season schedule for the Illinois Valley Pistol Shrimp.

The Pistol Shrimp are scheduled to play 27 games at home and 29 on the road in 2025. The home schedule includes 13 games in May and June and 14 in July with no scheduled doubleheaders and nine Friday/Saturday games. The road schedule includes long road trips as the Pistol Shrimp will visit the Johnstown (Pennsylvania) Mill Rats and the Chillicothe (Ohio) Paints in June and the Alton (Illinois) River Dragons and Jackson (Tennessee) Rockabillys in July.

The Prospect League season will open on Tuesday, May 27, 2025, and the Pistol Shrimp will be on the road facing the Clinton LumberKings. The Pistol Shrimp will debut at home on Friday, May 30th and Saturday, May 31st against the Normal CornBelters in a monumental opening weekend at Schweickert Stadium in Peru.

The Pistol Shrimp's final regular season home game will take place on Thursday, July 31, 2025, against the Clinton LumberKings. The Prospect League Playoffs open the following day with Division Championships on Friday, August 1, 2025.

The complete 2025 schedule can be viewed in list, calendar, and print form at PistolShrimpBaseball.com under the schedule tab. The Pistol Shrimp 2025 Promotional Schedule will be released at a later date.

About Pistol Shrimp Baseball: The 2024 Prosepct League Champion Illinois Valley Pistol Shrimp are an amateur wood-bat summer league baseball team, made up of top college players from around the country who aspire to a career in professional baseball! Established in 2019, the Pistol Shrimp are part of the Prospect League, an 18-team league that spans across the midwest from Iowa to Tennessee to Pennsylvania. The Pistol Shrimp play their home games at Schwieckert Stadium in Peru, Illinois from late May to early August each year, and pride themselves on providing fun, affordable, family-friendly entertainment to the communities of Peru and the towns throughout the entire Illinois Valley region!