2B Brandon Phillips extended his hitting streak to a team season-high 13 games Friday with a seventh-inning single. The hit sparked a Reds' rally as they turned a 1-0 deficit against Oakland right-hander Sonny Gray into a 2-1 lead which they did not relinquish. Phillips' career-best is a 22-game hitting streak in 2007.

2B Brandon Phillips returned to the lineup and went 1-for-5, extending his hitting streak to a season-high six games, after missing the past two games with a sore left ankle. He injured the ankle Sunday at Milwaukee when he went after a foul ball and his foot hit the barrier at the stands. Phillips stayed in the game, but on Monday at Colorado, he left the game after the sixth inning. He was scratched from the lineup Tuesday.

2B Brandon Phillips returned to the lineup after missing the previous two games due to a sore left ankle.

2B Brandon Phillips did not play for the second consecutive day due to a sore left ankle. He hurt the ankle in the first inning Sunday at Milwaukee but stayed in the game. Phillips was in the lineup Monday and tried to play through the pain but left after the sixth. He was scratched from the lineup Tuesday and didn't play. Manager Bryan Price said Wednesday, "(He's) not better enough. If I run him out there for nine more innings, it's not going to be better tomorrow. (He'll) get some treatment again today and hopefully (be) quite a bit better tomorrow. I think if it was up to him, he would play. I think it's going to be a lingering issue if we don't give him some time to rest up."

2B Brandon Phillips was scratched from the lineup due to a sore left ankle. He jammed the ankle Sunday at Milwaukee when his foot went beneath the padding at the barrier while catching a foul ball. Phillips played Monday but was lifted for a pinch hitter in the seventh inning.

2B Brandon Phillips went 1-for-3 with one RBI before being lifted for a pinch hitter in the seventh with soreness in his left ankle. He underwent X-rays that were negative. Phillips rolled the ankle Sunday at Milwaukee when he made a sliding attempt to catch a foul ball and the ankle went beneath the padding against the stands. Manager Bryan Price said Phillips wanted to stay in the game Monday but was talked into coming out. "I didn't want to stay in there, and it might be a play that cost us the game," Phillips said. "I'm going to try again tomorrow. I'm not going to rule anything out. Try again tomorrow, see what happens. Hopefully I can play another seven." Phillips is 7-for-18 during his current five-game hitting streak. A right-handed hitter, Phillips said his left ankle is integral to his approach. "I hit off my front toe, and it's kind of hard to do that," Phillips said. "I've been feeling pretty good lately and it always (stinks) -- just when you start feeling good and you injure yourself. Just see what happens tomorrow."

2B Brandon Phillips remained in the game Sunday despite tweaking his ankle when he slid into the wall chasing down a third-inning pop foul by Hernan Perez. Manager Bryan Price said that Phillips would be re-evaluated Monday. Phillips went 1-for-4 Sunday, extending his hitting streak to four games.

2B Brandon Phillips went 2-for-3 with a walk and a run on Wednesday. It was Phillips' 10th multi-hit game of the season and his first since May 7 against Milwaukee. Despite his low average in the month of May, (.216, 19-for-88), he has still been productive, compiling five home runs and 15 RBIs.

2B Brandon Phillips, who played for the Indians from 2002-05, was 1-for-3 with an RBI double Monday. Phillips' career average vs. the Indians is .346 (71-205), with 10 doubles, 9 home runs and 34 RBI.

2B Brandon Phillips homered for the fourth straight game for the first time in his career on Saturday when he went deep off right-hander Jimmy Nelson. He then homered again in the 10th inning. "He's something to watch," manager Bryan Price said. "He's been working real hard to stay on the ball. He's not just hitting mistakes, either. He's hitting good pitches." Phillips appeared in his 1,500th game as a Red on Saturday night and played his 1,000th game alongside first baseman Joey Votto on the right side of Cincinnati's infield.

2B Brandon Phillips hit a three-run home run on Friday night, his fourth of the season and third in as many games. It's the first time since 2012 that Phillips has homered in three straight. The homer extended Phillips' hitting streak to five and gave him 800 RBIs for his Reds career. "I'm just trying to remind people I can still play this game," Phillips said. "A lot of people have forgotten what I can really do."

2B Brandon Phillips (bruised left shin, bruised left ring finger) returned to the lineup after sitting out two games and went 0-for-4. Phillips was injured twice during a single plate appearance in the fourth inning Monday night against the Mets at New York when he fouled two balls off his leg before RHP Noah Syndergaard hit him on the hand with a pitch.

2B Brandon Phillips (bruised left shin, bruised left ring finger) returned to the lineup Friday after sitting out two games. Phillips was injured twice during a single plate appearance in the fourth inning Monday night against the Mets at New York when he fouled two balls off his leg before RHP Noah Syndergaard hit him on the hand with a pitch.

2B Brandon Phillips (left shin, left ring finger) missed his second straight game Wednesday, when the Reds fell to the Mets, 5-2. Phillips was injured during a single at-bat in the fourth inning Monday, when he fouled two balls off his left shin before Mets RHP Noah Syndergaard plunked him in the left ring finger. X-rays on Phillips' ring finger were negative, Manager Bryan Price said Wednesday afternoon that the shin is giving Phillips more aggravation than the ring finger. The Reds are off Thursday but Price said after the game he expects Phillips to play Friday, when Cincinnati begins a three-game series against the Pittsburgh Pirates.

2B Brandon Phillips did not start for a second straight game Wednesday because of injuries to his left shin and left ring finger. He fouled two balls off his shin before being plunked in the left ring finger by Mets RHP Noah Syndergaard on Monday.

2B Brandon Phillips (left shin, left ring finger) did not play Tuesday, when the Reds fell to the Mets 4-3. Phillips endured a painful at-bat in the fourth inning Monday night, when he fouled two balls off his left shin before being hit on the left ring finger by a pitch from Mets RHP Noah Syndergaard. X-rays on Phillips' ring finger were negative, but manager Bryan Price said Tuesday that Phillips was still particularly sore in the left shin and ankle area. "If he could play, I know he'd play," Price said. "So he's pretty beat up." Phillips is hitting .308 this season with one homer and seven RBIs in 18 games.

2B Brandon Phillips (left ring finger) left Monday's game after he was hit by a pitch by Mets RHP Noah Syndergaard in the fourth inning.X-rays were negative and Phillips is day-to-day. Phillips fouled off a pair of pitches before being plunked. He hopped out of the batter's box and crumpled to his knees holding his hand. He exited after a brief visit with trainers and was replaced by INF Ivan DeJesus Jr. Phillips singled in his first at-bat and has a hit in all 33 games he's played against the Mets in New York, including 23 games at Citi Field since the park opened in 2009. Overall this season, Phillips is batting .308 with one homer and seven RBIs in 18 games.

2B Brandon Phillips fell a homer shy of the cycle Tuesday night, going 4-for-4 including a single, double, and triple in that order in his first three at-bats.

2B Brandon Phillips is expected to make his 1,480th start for the Reds on Thursday, tying Dan Driessen for eighth on the team's all-time list.

2B Brandon Phillips returned to the lineup on Friday night after missing two games with the stomach flu. Phillips went 0-for-3 on Opening Day before being scratched from the starting lineup on Wednesday due to the illness. But, he broke out Wednesday, with a solo homer and a sacrifice fly. "He was terrific," said manager Bryan Price. "It's great to have him back. He's an impact player for the ballclub."