BRISTOL, Tenn. (AP) \u2014 Before Hurston Waldrep earned his first major league win by pitching at a NASCAR venue, it was only fair that his day included a lengthy drive.<\/p>\n
Waldrep was called up from Triple-A Gwinnett, then pitched 5 2\/3 innings for Atlanta in the Braves\u2019 4-2 win over Cincinnati in the rain-delayed MLB Speedway Classic at Bristol Motor Speedway. The game started Saturday but was suspended in the first inning because of rain. Waldrep was told that night he\u2019d be pitching Sunday \u2014 and to expect a car service early in the morning.<\/p>\n
\u201cWake up at 4:45, got in the car a little after 5, drove here with my girlfriend. Got here 9:45 or so. Everything since then, it\u2019s been nonstop,\u201d Waldrep said. \u201cDidn\u2019t really have time to sit here and think about how it all happened. Nonetheless, grateful for it, happy to be here. It\u2019s been an unbelievable day.\u201d<\/p>\n
It\u2019s about 250 miles from Gwinnett, Georgia, to Bristol \u2014 which would be over 450 laps around the track at Bristol. Waldrep said he tried to sleep on the ride up, but that wasn\u2019t easy. Since he didn\u2019t arrive until Sunday, he missed the fanfare of the previous day, but he was there for most of the baseball.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was really breathtaking to walk out, see how they set everything up, see the field, and just hearing from the players how last night went,\u201d he said. \u201cIt was all around just awesome.\u201d<\/p>\n
Waldrep made his big league debut in 2024, starting two games for the Braves. This was his first big league appearance this year. The 23-year-old right-hander allowed a run and three hits.<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter I took him out, I was like, \u2019Everything we put you through today you\u2019ve done your job,\u2019\u201d manager Brian Snitker said. \u201cHe\u2019s made a lot of strides. I think his time in Triple-A has been really really good for him.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BRISTOL, Tenn. (AP) \u2014 Before Hurston Waldrep earned his first major league win by pitching at a NASCAR…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":117070,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[1406,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-117069","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\/114968093303276664","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117069","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=117069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}