{"id":114328,"date":"2025-08-03T00:47:26","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T00:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/114328\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T00:47:26","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T00:47:26","slug":"mlb-speedway-classic-tim-mcgraw-pitbull-nascar-pit-crews-get-things-going","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/114328\/","title":{"rendered":"MLB Speedway Classic: Tim McGraw, Pitbull, NASCAR Pit Crews Get Things Going"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-8d19012c=\"\">Two of music&#8217;s biggest acts and two of baseball&#8217;s biggest legends officially got the party started at Bristol Motor Speedway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-8d19012c=\"\">Country superstar Tim McGraw and Mr. 305 himself, Pitbull, kicked things off ahead of a record crowd for an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MLB<\/a> game between the Atlanta Braves and Cincinnati Reds.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-8d19012c=\"\">McGraw is no stranger to baseball, as the son of former MLB pitcher Tug McGraw.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-8d19012c=\"\">Following the genre-melding opening act, players from both teams came out onto the temporarily built diamond in the middle of one of motorsports&#8217; biggest venues \u2013 riding around the track in the bed of pickup trucks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-8d19012c=\"\">That also included NASCAR pit crews introducing the starting lineups.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-8d19012c=\"\">To keep the pregame ceremony going, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/atlanta-braves-team\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Atlanta Braves<\/a> great Chipper Jones threw the ceremonial first pitch to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/cincinnati-reds-team\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cincinnati Reds<\/a> great Johnny Bench ahead of the MLB Speedway Classic. They were joined by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nascar\/cup-series\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NASCAR<\/a> greats Chase Elliott and Kyle Busch.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-8d19012c=\"\">These were just several memorable moments in the first MLB game ever held in Tennessee. MLB officias announced Monday that more than 85,000 tickets had been sold \u2014 topping the previous paid attendance of 84,587 set Sept. 12, 1954, when Cleveland Stadium hosted the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/mlb\/new-york-yankees-team\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Yankees<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-8d19012c=\"\">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>\n        recommended\n      <\/p>\n<p> Arrow pointing to the leftArrow pointing to the right <\/p>\n<p>Item 1 of 3<\/p>\n<p>   <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/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":"Two of music&#8217;s biggest acts and two of baseball&#8217;s biggest legends officially got the party started at Bristol&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":114329,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[1406,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-114328","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar","8":"tag-nascar","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114962081086073773","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}