{"id":312176,"date":"2025-08-02T14:53:23","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T14:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/312176\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T14:53:23","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T14:53:23","slug":"mlb-speedway-classic-dimensions-bristol-motor-speedway-baseball-field-measurements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/312176\/","title":{"rendered":"MLB Speedway Classic dimensions: Bristol Motor Speedway baseball field measurements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bristol Motor Speedway has completed its transformation from racetrack to MLB stadium.<\/p>\n<p>The venue will host a game between the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/baseball\/mlb\/teams\/atlanta-braves\/239\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Atlanta Braves;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Atlanta Braves<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/baseball\/mlb\/teams\/cincinnati-reds\/241\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Cincinnati Reds;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Cincinnati Reds<\/a>, known as the MLB Speedway Classic, on Aug. 2.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>It should be a historic night for the league \u2014 the first MLB game played in the state of Tennessee is expected to set the league\u2019s single-game attendance record.<\/p>\n<p>Jeremiah Yolkut, the league\u2019s senior vice president of global events, paid a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.knoxnews.com\/story\/sports\/2025\/07\/30\/mlb-speedway-classic-bristol-motor-speedway-braves-reds-field-construction\/84538072007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:visit to the racetrack in 2022;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">visit to the racetrack in 2022<\/a> to explore the possibility of hosting a game at the venue. Three years later, it is set to become a reality.<\/p>\n<p>The transformation from NASCAR track to baseball stadium took approximately two months. Here are the field measurements for Saturday&#8217;s game.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Construction of the baseball field in progress during a media event at Bristol Motor Speedway on June 24, 2025, ahead of the MLB Speedway Classic game between the Atlanta Braves and the Cincinnati Reds held at the racetrack.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/fa00a5878748842eb62390ef06106c19.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Construction of the baseball field in progress during a media event at Bristol Motor Speedway on June 24, 2025, ahead of the MLB Speedway Classic game between the Atlanta Braves and the Cincinnati Reds held at the racetrack.<\/p>\n<p>MLB Speedway Classic field dimensions<\/p>\n<p>The field will be constructed in the infield of Bristol Motor Speedway, primarily between Turns 3 and 4 of the speedway&#8217;s oval track.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The field will have dimensions of 330 feet down both foul lines. It will also be 400 feet to center field, 375 feet to right-center and 384 feet to left-center, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/mlb.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:MLB.com;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">MLB.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/mlb\/2025\/08\/02\/mlb-speedway-classic-dimensions\/85469610007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:MLB Speedway Classic dimensions: Bristol baseball field measurements;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">MLB Speedway Classic dimensions: Bristol baseball field measurements<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bristol Motor Speedway has completed its transformation from racetrack to MLB stadium. The venue will host a game&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312177,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[32283,381,12221,748,32280,393,4884,14881,113984,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-312176","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-atlanta-braves","9":"tag-bristol","10":"tag-bristol-motor-speedway","11":"tag-britain","12":"tag-cincinnati-reds","13":"tag-england","14":"tag-great-britain","15":"tag-mlb","16":"tag-mlb-speedway-classic","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114959745242459890","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}