Red Sox Notes: Rick Porcello Not Where He Wants To Be Yet After Rough Start

Rick Porcello’s once promising spring training outing Sunday changed with two outs in the second inning.

Porcello, who had blanked the Tampa Bay Rays on Sunday through the first 1 2/3 innings, allowed eight runs, all with two outs, over the next two frames in the Boston Red Sox’s 13-5 loss in Port Charlotte, Fla.

“I don’t like the line, but it’s a work in progress, and clearly I’m not where I want to be yet,” Porcello said, via MLB.com. “It doesn’t look that good, but I feel like I’m improving.”

He added: “The results weren’t very good. They hit mistakes. Really, the thing that felt most important to me was that I was …

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