Reds starter Aaron Harang (4-4) set the tone with seven well-pitched innings. All four hits Harang allowed were extra bases, but Philadelphia scored its lone run against him on Raul Ibanez's leadoff homer in the fourth. Harang also walked two and tied a season-high with nine strikeouts.

In the bottom of the first, Reds leadoff man Willy Taveras snapped a 0-for-19 skid with a bloop single to center field. After moving to second base on a groundout, Taveras scored on Brandon Phillips' RBI single to right field. Ryan Hanigan made it a 2-0 game in the second inning with a homer to left field on a 2-2 Jamie Moyer pitch. It was Hanigan's first home run of the season.

Little ball aided the Reds in the third after Jerry Hairston Jr. led off with a double and went to third on a Phillips sacrifice bunt. Jay Bruce's bloop single to right scored Hairston and extended Cincinnati's lead to three runs.

Moyer (3-4) gave up three earned runs and nine hits over six innings with one walk and two strikeouts.

It was a 3-1 game in the seventh until Phillips' two-out drive off the wall in left-center field took an odd carom for a two-run triple, scoring pinch-hitter Chris Dickerson and Taveras.