In MLB's first-ever game played at a NASCAR track, Eli White hit a pair of home runs to lead Atlanta over Cincinnati at Bristol Motor Speedway.

The Atlanta Braves added another player to their outfield to have some depth for the final stretch of the regular season.

Welcome to Cincinnati.com's live coverage of the inaugural Speedway Classic, a baseball game played at famed auto-racing venue Bristol Motor Speedway between the Cincinnati Reds and the Atlanta Braves.

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.

Heavy rain falls as fans wait out the rain delay in the stands before the MLB Speedway Classic held at Bristol Motor Speedway in Bristol, Tenn., on August 2, 2025. Heavy rain begins to fall during the first inning of the MLB Speedway Classic held at Bristol Motor Speedway in Bristol, Tenn., on August 2, 2025.

“Pretty special player, and it’s cool that he got to pass Pete Rose there and had a great night doing it,” said Drake Baldwin, whose two-out, bases-loaded single in the eighth inning drove in Olson and Ronald Acuña Jr. with the final runs of a game the Braves trailed 10-4 after six innings.

In a game that took parts of two days to complete due to rain, the Reds fell to the Braves, 4-2, on Aug. 3 at Bristol Motor Speedway, the famed auto-racing venue that staged the one-off, tentpole ...