The official number of tickets sold for the game, which was scheduled for Saturday and completed Sunday after an inclement weather postponement, was 91,032. The previous milestone for most regular-season game tickets sold was 84,587 set on Sept. 12, 1954, in a contest between Cleveland and the New York Yankees.

Men's Fitness. Attendees are calling MLB's Speedway Classic a "major league fail" with some even comparing it to Fyre Fest. On Saturday, August 2, heavy rain forced the Cincinnati Reds and Atlanta Braves game to be suspended after one inning,

It spanned two days and featured nearly as many hours of pregame rain delay (2 hours, 17 minutes) as game play (2:41), but the MLB Speedway Classic did not flounder in the stands.