(Sports Network) - Now just one home run shy of becoming the sixth player in major league history to hit 600 for a career, Cincinnati Reds slugger Ken Griffey Jr. will face off against streaking Atlanta Braves right-hander Tim Hudson in this afternoon's finale of a three-game weekend series at Great American Ball Park.

Griffey belted career homer No. 599 during the first inning of Saturday's clash with the Braves, and finished 2-for-4 with three RBI. But it was teammate Jay Bruce who stole the show.

The rookie outfielder made his first career home run a game-winner, as Bruce's blast in the bottom of the 10th inning carried Cincinnati to an 8-7 victory.

Atlanta's Manny Acosta (3-2) started the bottom of the 10th with a strikeout of Jerry Hairston Jr., but Bruce followed by taking the reliever's pitch deep to right to give the Reds their second consecutive extra-inning win. Cincinnati edged Atlanta, 3-2, in 11 innings on Friday.

Bruce's blast made a winner of Francisco Cordero (2-0), who worked around a leadoff single by Josh Anderson to start the 10th and later got Mark Teixeira to line out to end the inning.

Griffey is 6-for-21 with one lifetime homer against Hudson, who vies for a second win against Cincinnati in 2008.

Hudson is 4-1 with a no-decision in his last six starts, dropping his earned run average from 3.74 to 2.90. He defeated the Reds to kick off the streak on May 2, allowing three hits and striking out 10 over nine scoreless innings in Atlanta's 3-0 triumph.

The veteran righty is 3-0 in four lifetime starts against Cincinnati, having allowed 30 hits and 11 runs in 29 1/3 innings, while walking four batters and striking out 25.

Rookie right-hander Johnny Cueto goes for the Reds today in his first career start against the Braves.

Cueto, a 22-year-old Dominican, ended a three-start winless skid Tuesday against Pittsburgh. He allowed nine hits and two earned runs in five innings during Cincinnati's 9-6 victory over the Pirates.

He had lost five out of six decisions prior to that game, including a 5-2 defeat in Los Angeles on May 21 when he was touched for seven hits and four runs in five innings.

Cueto is 3-1 in six home starts this season, allowing 16 earned runs and striking out 36 batters in 38 innings.

The Braves, who have lost four of five tests thus far on a six-game road trip, won all three meetings with Cincinnati in Atlanta earlier this month. However, the Reds took six of the seven matchups between these teams last season.