Bristol Motor Speedway will host an everyday season Main League Baseball (MLB) sport between the Atlanta Braves and Cincinnati Reds in August 2025.
Coined the ‘MLB Speedway Basic at Bristol, officers from Main League Baseball, Speedway Motorsports, and Tennessee Governor Invoice Lee had been readily available for the announcement on Friday morning on the racetrack. Will probably be the primary Nationwide League/American League sport ever performed in Tennessee.
Fox Sports activities would be the broadcast associate. The sport will probably be thought of a Cincinnati Reds residence sport and the 2 groups will play one another in Cincinnati on Thursday, July 31, and Friday, Aug. 1 earlier than heading to the speedway.
The infield of the half-mile racetrack will probably be transformed to a baseball diamond to host the groups on Saturday, Aug. 2.
Bristol Motor Speedway is conversant in internet hosting non-NASCAR occasions over time. The “Battle at Bristol” featured the College of Tennessee and Virginia Tech in a regular-season school soccer sport within the infield of the racetrack in 2016. The sport set an NCAA soccer report with 156,990 followers.
MLB can also be no stranger to bringing its occasions to new locations. In 2021 and ’22, MLB held a regular-season sport, MLB at Fields of Goals sport, subsequent to the placement the place the favored 1989 film was filmed. Earlier this 12 months, Rickwood Discipline, which hosted Nego League video games, held a regular-season sport between the St. Louis Cardinals and San Francisco Giants.
Those that are 2024-2025 ticketholders at Bristol Motor Speedway and season ticket members of each the Braves and Reds could have entry to the pre-sale occasion September 16. Most of the people sale begins in early December.
