{"id":26536,"date":"2025-07-21T16:52:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T16:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/26536\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T16:52:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T16:52:10","slug":"mlb-unveils-nascar-inspired-braves-reds-uniforms-for-speedway-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/26536\/","title":{"rendered":"MLB Unveils NASCAR-inspired Braves, Reds Uniforms for Speedway Classic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-dd2a400b=\"\">The Braves and Reds are set to play inside historic Bristol Motor Speedway, so it&#8217;s only appropriate they&#8217;ll have special uniforms to honor the occasion.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-dd2a400b=\"\">The unis were unveiled on Monday, and feature different elements inspired by NASCAR: the Braves will wear hats with flames on top of the visor, while the Reds have a checkered flag design, and both jerseys have NASCAR-style numbers such as those found on the stock cars themselves.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-dd2a400b=\"\">The Speedway Classic is the first such event held at Bristol Motor Speedway, and the expectation is that it will set a record for attendance in an MLB game \u2013 Bristol is one of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/stories\/motor\/highest-capacity-sports-venues-usa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">the largest sports venues in America<\/a>, with a capacity of 153,000, or, 97,000 more than MLB&#8217;s current larger park, Dodger Stadium.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-dd2a400b=\"\">The Speedway Classic will be played on Aug. 2 at Bristol Motor Speedway in Bristol, Tennessee, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/stories\/mlb\/mlb-speedway-classic-date-how-watch-everything-you-need-know\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">air on FOX<\/a>, the FOX Sports app and <a href=\"https:\/\/foxsports.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">FOXSports.com<\/a>, with first pitch at 7:15 p.m. ET.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-dd2a400b=\"\">Want great stories delivered right to your inbox?\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/newsletter\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Create or log in to your FOX Sports account<\/a>, and follow leagues, teams and players to receive a personalized newsletter daily!<\/p>\n<p> FOLLOW Follow your favorites to personalize your FOX Sports experience     <\/p>\n<p>\n        recommended\n      <\/p>\n<p> Arrow pointing to the leftArrow pointing to the right <\/p>\n<p>Item 1 of 2<\/p>\n<p>   <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/b.fssta.com\/uploads\/application\/leagues\/logos\/MLB.vresize.160.160.medium.0.png\" alt=\"Major League Baseball\" class=\"team-logo\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\"\/> Get more from the Major League Baseball Follow your favorites to get information about games, news and more     <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Braves and Reds are set to play inside historic Bristol Motor Speedway, so it&#8217;s only appropriate they&#8217;ll&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26537,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[425,99],"class_list":["post-26536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-nascar","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}