{"id":477229,"date":"2025-08-03T08:30:38","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T12:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/due-to-the-rain-the-speedway-classic-will-resume-this-sunday\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T08:30:38","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T12:30:38","slug":"due-to-the-rain-the-speedway-classic-will-resume-this-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/sports\/due-to-the-rain-the-speedway-classic-will-resume-this-sunday\/","title":{"rendered":"Due to the rain, the Speedway Classic will resume this Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<em>Bristol, Tennessee <\/em>.\u2014 The long-awaited <strong>MLB Speedway Classic<\/strong> experienced a historic and colorful start at the <strong>Bristol Motor Speedway<\/strong>, but rain forced the suspension of the inaugural game between the <strong>Atlanta Braves<\/strong> and the <strong>Cincinnati Reds<\/strong> after only one out in the bottom of the first inning. The game will resume this <strong>Sunday at 1:00 p.m. ET<\/strong> and will be broadcast on <strong>FOX<\/strong>.\n\n\n<p><strong>You may be interested in<\/strong>:<a href=\"https:\/\/ab.deultimominuto.net\/deportes\/beisbol\/yandy-diaz-castiga-a-snell-con-dos-jonrones-y-rays-blanquean-a-dodgers\/#google_vignette\">Yandy D\u00edaz hits two home runs against Snell and Rays shut out Dodgers<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nThe opening ceremony, which marked the first matchup of the American League and the National League held in the state of Tennessee and the first within a racing venue, was successfully held before the arrival of bad weather.\n\nIn the brief stretch played, local opener <strong>Chase Burns<\/strong> \u2014a native of the region and former University of Tennessee player\u2014 ignited excitement with a <strong>100-mile-per-hour<\/strong> fastball to strike out Austin Riley and close out Atlanta&#8217;s first inning without damage. Immediately afterwards, the Reds took a 1-0 lead with consecutive singles from <strong>Matt McLain<\/strong>, <strong>Elly De La Cruz<\/strong>, and <strong>Austin Hays<\/strong>.\n\nThe festive atmosphere included nods to motorsports. Star pitcher <strong>Andrew Abbott<\/strong> entered the field wearing an authentic suit of the legendary NASCAR driver <strong>Rusty Wallace<\/strong>, while catcher <strong>Tyler Stephenson<\/strong> wore a protector inspired by the movie <em>Talladega Nights<\/em>. For his part, <strong>Jos\u00e9 Trevino<\/strong> sported spikes with a <strong>Lightning McQueen<\/strong> design, a character from the animated film <em>Cars<\/em>.\n\nFans will have to wait one more day to meet the winner of this historic clash, which combines the passion for baseball with the speed and spectacle of the racing world.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bristol, Tennessee .\u2014 The long-awaited MLB Speedway Classic experienced a historic and colorful start at the Bristol Motor Speedway, but rain forced the suspension of the inaugural game between the Atlanta Braves and the Cincinnati Reds after only one out in the bottom of the first inning. The game will resume this Sunday at 1:00 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":477230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35481,6],"tags":[611,40231,40813,13766,41186],"class_list":{"0":"post-477229","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-baseball","8":"category-sports","9":"tag-deultimominuto","10":"tag-dominican-republic","11":"tag-major-leagues","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-theperiodicodelatruth"},"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/08\/images-1.jpeg","dum_api":{"author_name":"Redacci\u00f3n De \u00daltimo Minuto","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cropped-logo-de-ultimo-minuto-96x96.png","categories_name":["Baseball","Sports"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/08\/images-1.jpeg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}