Cincinnati ? Rose and Morgan, Bench and Perez, Seaver and Browning, the Nasty Boys and the Big Red Machine.

Nostalgia washed over the Reds as they closed their ’70s-era ballpark Sunday with a wave of feel-good memories and another reality-check loss.

Philadelphia held on for a 4-3 victory, giving them a sweep of the final series at Cinergy Field. Not even a start by 37-year-old Jose Rijo could close it out on an upbeat note.

The ballpark opened with a loss in 1970 as Riverfront Stadium and closed with another loss under a different name.

“There was so much history and tradition here, you wanted to go out and win it,” said Ken Griffey Jr., who was 0-for-11 in the series. “We just didn’t do it. When you see all the guys who came before us walking around the stadium and doing all the fun things, that means something.”

After Todd Walker grounded out to second base to end an era, the Reds introduced 52 luminaries from their Riverfront days on the field. Missing was Pete Rose, who got record-setting hit No. 4,192 at the stadium in 1985 but is banned from baseball for life for gambling.

He wasn’t forgotten by the crowd or his contemporaries.

Tom Browning, who pitched a perfect game here in 1988, got a can of red spray paint and put Rose’s No. 14 on the mound after the game. The crowd of 40,964 chanted “Pete! Pete!” as home plate was dug up and driven next door to Great American Ball Park.

Rose is supposed to play in a celebrity softball game at Cinergy on Monday.

“You could sense the crowd wanted some sort of acknowledgment of Pete, so I went and got some spray paint,” Browning said. “He’s going to be here tomorrow, but it would have been nice today to see him be a part of this. I don’t think it would have taken too much to get him to be part of this.”

The Reds asked baseball for permission to include Rose in the ceremonies, but were turned down. Chief operating officer John Allen said the club would have faced major penalties, such as a fine, firings or loss of draft picks, if it had defied baseball and included Rose.