Bailey roughed up in fourth

PHILADELPHIA — The Homer Bailey of April showed up in May.

Bailey, who entered the game with a 2.95 ERA in May after a 6.15 ERA in the season’s first month, gave up six runs in the fourth inning last night and was pulled before the inning was over.

The Philadelphia Phillies won 12-1 at Citizens Bank Park.

Giving up six runs to Philadelphia is no small feat — the Phillies had gone 23 innings without scoring and had just seven total runs in their previous four games.

“Homer wasn’t real sharp. … He didn’t have his good fastball command,” Reds manager Bryan Price said.

Bailey (3-3) walked Ryan Howard to start the fourth before giving up a double to Marlon Byrd and a two-run double to Cody Asche.

Bailey then threw three straight fastballs for balls to Dominic Brown, who hit his 3-and-0 offering into the second deck of the right-field stands for a 4-1 lead.

Tony Gwynn Jr. followed with a single before pitcher Cole Hamels gave himself up for the first out of the inning with a sacrifice bunt. Bailey nearly got out of the jam after striking out Jimmy Rollins, but then Carlos Ruiz hit the first pitch he saw into center field to score another run, and Price ended Bailey’s night.

“I’ve been here before. I think at anytime, I’ll get in a groove and just take off and completely forget about the first monthand-a-half,” Bailey said. “You just have to keep working.”

The Phillies scored five more runs against Sean Marshall in the seventh.

Zack Cozart gave the Reds a 1-0 lead in the first when he scored on a fielder’s choice grounder.