Porcello extends streak as Sox gain ground

BOSTON — Continuing to make this season a memorable one for themselves, Rick Porcello worked 6 1/3 innings to match a 38-year-old club standard and David Ortiz defied time by clobbering another home run Tuesday night as the Boston Red Sox rolled past the San Francisco Giants, 4-0.

Porcello (12-2) limited the Giants to four hits while improving to 9-0 at home and helping the Red Sox close to a half-game back of the division-leading Orioles. He became the first Boston pitcher to earn that distinction since Dennis Eckersley in 1978. Ortiz, who has insisted he’ll retire after this season, drilled his 23rd homer of the season, a three-run drive in the fourth inning that padded Boston’s 1-0 lead against Giants starter Jake Peavy (5-8).

“I would have loved to play that game without him tonight,” said Peavy, who also surrendered a third-inning homer to Brock Holt on an evening when Fenway Park patrons received “Pet Brocks,” complete with their own fake grass for landscaping.

The Giants, who have lost four games in a row for the first time since they dropped five straight from April 17-21, advanced only one runner past first base. They actually outhit the Red Sox, 5-4, as Peavy permitted three hits in six innings

“You don’t normally go out and feel that good,” Peavy said. “Four baserunners and all of them touched home plate.”

MOMENTS THAT MATTEREDPapi’s longest blast: In the fourth inning with two runners on and nobody out, Ortiz hit his longest home run of the year. The shot off …

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