BRISTOL, Tenn. − 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. Refresh this page throughout the game, which started late due to a rain delay at 9:41 p.m.

A record crowd for a regular-season Major League Baseball game got to see all the pomp and pageantry with the MLB Speedway Classic before the rain washed out the game itself in the bottom of the first inning.

When the Speedway Classic resumes Sunday, the Reds will have Matt McLain at second and Elly De La Cruz at first, and Miguel Andujar at the plate with one out. Cincinnati leads the game 1-0 on an Austin Hays RBI single ( GameTracker ).