Why did the Atlanta Braves hang onto their expiring veterans? President of baseball operations Alex Anthopoulos attempted to justify the strategy.

In typical 2025 Braves fashion, the Reds scored 8 in the 8th to tie the game at 11 apiece. However, courtesy of Pierce Johnson’s scoreless 9th, we got free baseball in Cincinnati and watched Marcell Ozuna (who is still a Brave) drive home what was ultimately the game winner.

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,