Porcello helps push Boston’s AL East lead to 6

The All-Star break presented Rick Porcello with the perfect chance to leave his first half behind him. Despite an 11-4 record, it ended with his worst outing of the season — a two-plus-inning debacle, where the Blue Jays lit him up for eight runs — and a 4.13 ERA two years removed from his American League Cy Young Award season.