Atlanta Braves and the Cincinnati Reds to play at Bristol Motor Speedway The MLB Speedway Classic will be the first ever major league baseball game to be played on a NASCAR track.

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,

The Braves and Reds combined for 16 runs on 16 hits in the eighth inning Thursday night, marking just the third time in MLB history that both teams scored eight or more runs in the same inning.