Atlanta Braves vs Cincinnati Reds – 2 August 2025 – Redleg Nation

The Reds and Braves have divided the first two games of their 3-game set. The first two games took place in Cincinnati, but the match of this evening is in Bristol, Tennessee and will take place on the Binnenveld of Bristol Motor Speedway. The first pitch for the game is planned at 7:15 pm et, but the weather is not looking exactly great now either. To note – this game is available on Fox and only available on Fox.

Start setups

Start -tarpers

Chase Burns

Outside the beginning where it seemed as if Boston knew what would come and Chase Burns tipped pitches, he was solid this season. In each of his last three starts, he has led 10 batters, but that is also supplied with 10 earned points in 17.1 innings.

The splits in the large competitions have been interesting for burns. Righties hit a higher average, but they do not run at all and hit a ton. Talking to the left for a lower average, but they run a lot, spend a lot of time and hit him for a good amount of strength.

Split

Pitch -use

Spencer steps

After being one of the best pitchers in baseball from 2022-2023, Spencer Strider only made two starts in 2024 before he had Tommy John operation. He returned at the end of April this year, but injured his hamstring in his first start and then missed another month. In his first five starts, he placed an ERA of 5.40 and had fewer strikeouts than innings. In the nine starts since he posted an ERA of 2.91 and has 68 strikeouts in 52.2 innings.

This season, his splits prefer right -handed batters. They hit for a higher average and that also goes to a higher slugging percentage. Lefties are just less than .200 against him, but show similar power on their hits when the judges are. Left -handed batters walk quite a bit more and make contact more often.

Pitch -use

When and where

• Playing time: 7:15 pm and
• Where: Bristol Motor Speedway
• Watch: FOX
• Listen: 700 WLW AM (Cincinnati Area)
• Prediction: 70 °, cloudy, 7% chance of rain

News and notes

Grille

Five schedule movements were made this afternoon. They added officially traded acquisitions Miguel Andujar and Zack Littell to the selection. TJ Friedl is also back from paternity leave and the limited list. To make room on the Roster, they had Lyon Richardson and Connor Joe to Triple-A. If the figures are not correct for you, it is because the two teams can transport 27 players for today’s game.

Division landing