{"id":655997,"date":"2026-04-01T06:09:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T06:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/655997\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T06:09:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T06:09:21","slug":"blue-devils-seize-control-early-to-put-away-macomb-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/655997\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Devils seize control early to put away Macomb | Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>QUINCY &#8212; The Quincy Blue Devils scored four runs in the first inning of Tuesday&#8217;s baseball game against Macomb, setting the tone early in a 6-3 win over the Bombers.<\/p>\n<p>Blue Devils starting pitcher Noah Wells earned the win after pitching 4.2 innings with five strikeouts, while allowing two hits, three walks and five strikeouts. He went 2-for-3 at the plate with two RBIs.<\/p>\n<p>QHS pitcher Chase Saalborn pitched the final two innings in relief with two strikeouts, while allowing two hits, no walks and no runs. Ty Lawson pitched a third of an inning with a strikeout.<\/p>\n<p>Macomb starting pitcher Nick Elbe was tagged with the loss after pitching three innings with two strikeouts, while allowing four hits, two walks and four earned runs. Elbe went 2-for-3 with a run.<\/p>\n<p>Bombers reliever Hayden Katz pitched three scoreless innings in relief with one strikeout, while allowing one hit and one walk.<\/p>\n<p>Blue Devils center fielder Jacob Salisbury went 3-for-3 with a double, run and two stolen bases.<\/p>\n<p>QHS third baseman James Day went 1-for-3 with a run and an RBI, while second baseman Kade Parkhill went 1-for-2 with a walk and two RBIs.<\/p>\n<p>Up next for QHS (4-1-1) are road games against Galesburg on Wednesday and Palmyra on Thursday, both 4:30 p.m. starts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"QUINCY &#8212; The Quincy Blue Devils scored four runs in the first inning of Tuesday&#8217;s baseball game against&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":655998,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2288],"tags":[2315,2309,5,2316,2323,2314,2317,2313,2325,2413,2422,19,2310,2328,2304,2318,2308,2319,4,2305,2303,2307,2320,4101,2326,2327,2321,185,2324,811,2350,2311,2312,1039],"class_list":["post-655997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb-postseason","tag-athletic-sports","tag-ball-and-bat-games","tag-baseball","tag-baseball-competitions","tag-baseball-events","tag-baseball-finals","tag-baseball-games","tag-baseball-playoffs-and-champions","tag-baseball-teams","tag-champion-seasons-in-major-league-baseball","tag-hit-baseball","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-major-league-baseball-competitions","tag-major-league-baseball-playoffs","tag-major-league-baseball-postseason","tag-major-league-baseball-seasons","tag-major-league-baseball-teams","tag-major-league-baseball-teams-seasons","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-playoffs","tag-mlb-postseason","tag-outdoor-sports","tag-pitcher","tag-relief-pitcher","tag-run-baseball","tag-seasons-in-american-sport","tag-seasons-in-baseball","tag-sports","tag-sports-events","tag-starting-pitcher","tag-strikeout","tag-team-sports","tag-turf-sports","tag-world-series"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=655997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/655998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}