With Spencer Strider starting the MLB Speedway Classic for the Braves, here's a look back at his high school career at Christian Academy of Knoxville:

Cincinnati manager Terry Francona noticed the sheer size of Bristol Motor Speedway rising up from the mountains as the Reds arrived Saturday on their buses. The best way to describe the speedway? Huge.

The first MLB Speedway Classic, a regular-season game between the Atlanta Braves and the Cincinnati Reds played on the infield of a NASCAR speedway, will mark the league’s first time ever playing a game in Tennessee and it’s set to break the MLB’s single-game attendance record.