Will Benson hit his ninth multi-run homer of the year to power the Cincinnati Reds to a 3-2 win over the Atlanta Braves on Friday. With two outs in the seventh, manager Terry Francona elected to let Benson face him and Benson sent it 356 feet to left field.

The Braves won an absolute thriller last night in what was one of the craziest games of the entire MLB season. After Atlanta scored eight runs in the top of the 8th to take a commanding 11-3 lead, Cincinnati turned around and scored eight runs of their own in the bottom half of the inning.

Saturday's game at the Bristol Motor Speedway in Tennessee will be played in the infield of one of NASCAR's most iconic race tracks

On Aug. 1, Cincinnati (58-53) plated the opening run in the sixth inning. Matt McLain singled home Will Benson. That put Reds starting pitcher Brady Singer (9-8) in line for the win on one of the finer days of his 2025 season as he went six shutout innings with just four hits, a lone walk and 10 strikeouts.

The Reds and Braves will start their engines for the Speedway Classic at 7:15 p.m. ET on Saturday. This article was originally published on www.si.com as Reds-Braves Speedway Classic Features Some Seats Unbelievably Far From the Action.

The Cincinnati Reds and Atlanta Braves combined for a 16 runs in the eight inning in the Braves wild 12-11 win on Thursday night in Great American Ball Park.

Of all the things that happened at Great American Ball Park between the Cincinnati Reds and Atlanta Braves on Thursday, in what was one of the most bizarre, confounding and downright ridiculous games of professional baseball played since the first one here in 1869,