Alex Cora suggests Red Sox threw at Aaron Judge in retaliation after Gerrit Cole hit Rafael Devers
NY Post
As of Sunday morning, Alex Cora believed the drama between his Red Sox and the Yankees was over.
Not because his pitching staff did not intend to retaliate after Gerrit Cole hit Rafael Devers with a pitch Saturday, but because a Boston pitcher apparently already had attempted a form of retaliation against Aaron Judge.
Cora was angry after the Red Sox’s 7-1 win over the Yankees in The Bronx on Saturday because he believed Cole’s 0-1 cutter that drilled Devers in the first inning had intent.
Cole’s fourth-inning intentional walk to Devers made it “loud and clear,” Cora had said: Cole did not want to face Devers.
The Red Sox manager said he believed the matter was finished and did not anticipate further fireworks.
“It was closed [Saturday] around the sixth inning,” Cora said before the series finale. “We had our chance. It didn’t happen.”
With the Yankees on an impressive run of mostly correct decisions, there’s some reason to leave them alone and just let the best team in the American League continue to roll. But they did raise serious doubt and leave room for suggestions (and even ridicule) following maybe the most inexplicable decision of this season, or any season.
The Giants have never been 0-2 under Brian Daboll, until now. They were 2-0 and flying high in 2022 and 1-1 after a rousing comeback in Arizona in 2023. So, this represents a low point as far as early-season difficulties for Daboll and the Giants. They had no business beating the Vikings in the opener and no business losing to the Commanders in Week 2. But here they are.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Harrison Butker kept making a lonely walk to midfield after each quarter Sunday to check on the direction of the wind, which tends to swirl inside Arrowhead Stadium. He did it one last time during the 2-minute warning, when his Chiefs were trailing the Bengals by two and trying to give him a winning field-goal attempt.