BOTTOM LINE: The Los Angeles Dodgers meet the Cincinnati Reds with a 1-0 series lead. Cincinnati has a 56-51 record overall and a 31-23 record in home games. The Reds are seventh in the NL with 109 total home runs, averaging one per game.

The right-hander has a 6.26 ERA in six games this season with Cincinnati to go along with 45 strikeouts. Despite the high ERA, Burns has pitched better than that number shows. He gave up five runs and recorded just one out against the Red Sox when he was thought to be tipping his pitches.

Chase Burns made Cincinnati Reds history against the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Lux, who has two World Series rings with the Dodgers, was made available a year after missing all of 2023 because of a knee injury when the Dodgers closed a deal with South Korean free agent second baseman Hyeseong Kim ($12.5 million, three years) a few days before sending Lux to the Reds.

The LA Dodgers and Cincinnati Reds battle Monday, as they swing into a 3-game series on the north bank of the Ohio River.

The Cincinnati Reds were among the teams with scouts at Yankee Stadium for the Yankees series against the Tampa Bay Rays, according to Erik Boland of Newsday Sports. The Reds are currently 56-51 and sit two games back of the third and final National League Wild Card spot.

The Reds did all their scoring in the first inning. Austin Hays and Gavin Lux had back-to-back RBI singles to drive in T.J. Friedl to get on the scoreboard, and then Matt McLain for an insurance run, respectively.

Tyler Stephenson homered and drove in three runs and Nick Martinez struck out five in five innings as the Cincinnati Reds beat the Tampa Bay Rays 7-2 on Friday night.

Will the REAL Cincinnati Reds Please Stand Up. If the Reds are true contenders, this series against the Dodgers will tell us just how legitimate of contenders they really are.

MLB announced that the Speedway Classic, featuring the Atlanta Braves vs. the Cincinnati Reds, at Bristol Motor Speedway in Tennessee, has already sold over 85,000 tickets. The game is set to surpass the previous regular-season game attendance record of 84,587, established on Sept. 12, 1954, when Cleveland Stadium hosted the New York Yankees.