Philadelphia — Eight months after he got his 303rd win, Tom Glavine finally got his 304th.

The venerable left-hander took a one-hit shutout and eight-run lead to the sixth inning, then he and the bullpen withstood a late charge from the Philadelphia Phillies in an 8-6 Braves win at Citizens Bank Park.

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Philadelphia Phillies starting pitcher Brett Myers looks down at the mound as Atlanta Braves' Yunel Escobar, left rear, rounds the bases on a solo home run hit off the second pitch in the first inning of a baseball game Wednesday

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"Yeah, how 'bout that — five years and two months later, finally won another game," cracked Glavine (1-1), who had gone 0-3 in 10 starts since a Sept. 8 win against Houston, his last win for the New York Mets.

Yunel Escobar, Chipper Jones and Kelly Johnson hit home runs, and Brian McCann added three RBIs for the Braves, who got their second win in three games after a seven-game road skid.

Jones continued his season-long sizzle, going 2-for-4 with his 11th homer, a double and a walk raise his major league-leading average from .415 to .418.

But the clubhouse focus was on the 42-year-old Glavine, who returned to the Braves after five seasons with the Mets, and could've had a few wins with better run support in his six starts before Wednesday.

"Glad to see Tommy get his first," manager Bobby Cox said. "He deserved it — again."

It was Glavine's 243rd win in 17-plus seasons with the Braves, and his first since he beat the Phillies with six shutout innings on Sept. 19, 2002.

Marietta's Blaine Boyer pitched the ninth inning to earn his first save, but it wasn't easy. He gave up a run on three consecutive two-out singles in the ninth before Shane Victorino flied out to Jeff Francoeur at the right-field warning track.

"That was awesome," said Boyer, who had blown two leads for Glavine earlier this season. "Even though I gave up a run, that was a dream come true right there."

Glavine was charged with four runs, four hits and two walks in 5 2/3 innings, including Chase Utley's two-run homer in the sixth. He's 5-1 with a 3.40 ERA in 10 starts against the Phillies since the beginning of the 2006 season.

"For five innings he was dealin'; they couldn't touch him," Jones said. "They made some adjustments, and his location might have been a little off in the sixth. But he was vintage Tommy Glavine tonight."

Glavine faced one batter over the minimum through five innings.

"It was as good a location as I've had all year," he said. "The mistake I made, once I got through the fifth inning I went out there in the sixth and kind of pitched to the score. That's not a very good thing for me to do.

"Even at my age, you learn some things every now and then. I just need to kind of stay in the focus of trying to pitch my game and not pitching the score."

Escobar set the tone with a home run on the second pitch of the game from Phillies right-hander Brett Myers. One out later, Jones' first-pitch homer gave him seven homers and 18 RBIs in his past 14 games against the Phillies.

After Johnson's solo homer in the second inning, the Braves had as many homers in two innings as they hit in their previous nine road games combined.

McCann's two-run, two-out double in the third inning pushed the lead to 5-0, and the boos grew from a smattering to a chorus from the crowd of 36,001.

The Braves sent eight batters to the plate in the three-run fifth inning. McCann's run-scoring single chased Myers from the game, and Gregor Blanco lashed a two-run, two-out single off reliever Ryan Madson for an 8-0 lead.

Glavine struck out four of six batters in the fourth and fifth and appeared to be in complete control. But in the sixth he gave up a single, walk and a Jimmy Rollins double before recording the first out.

Another run scored on a groundout before Utley's homer.

The Phillies tacked on a run in the eighth when Ryan Howard homered off left-hander Royce Ring, his 18th homer and 49th RBI in 50 games against the Braves.

There was more nervousness in the ninth after the Phillies got a pair of two-out singles against Boyer to bring Jimmy Rollins to the plate.

After a mound visit from pitching coach Roger McDowell, Rollins singled through the right side of the infield on a 2-2 pitch to cut the lead to two runs.

With what remained of the crowd on its feet, Victorino flied out to end it.