In first start off DL, Moscot gives up 4 homers

DENVER — There are bad days at work, and then there are days like the one Reds starter Jon Moscot experienced on Tuesday at Coors Field.

Freshly activated from the disabled list, Moscot was beat up by the Rockies for seven earned runs and eight hits, including four home runs. All of it came over two innings of work during a 17-4 rout.

“I don’t really have a whole lot. I just got hit really hard,” Moscot said. “Every mistake I made got hit, and I’ve got to be better than that. Two innings, it’s just not good. It’s frustrating.”

Adding to the pain, Moscot was hit on the right ear by a pitch while trying to put down a sacrifice bunt in the third.

“It got me in the ear and my bat hit me in the face, but luckily it wasn’t anything,” said Moscot, who was able to finish the half-inning and take first base.

Moscot being OK was the only good fortune that came his way in his first start for Cincinnati since April 27 vs. the Mets at Citi Field. In that game, he developed soreness in his surgically repaired left (non-throwing) shoulder that was later diagnosed as inflammation.

Moscot pitched six scoreless innings in his last …

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