Cora says he wasn’t accusing Orioles with comments after Sale’s start
BALTIMORE (AP) — Boston Red Sox supervisor Alex Cora says he was not accusing Baltimore of something nefarious when he identified how few swings and misses the Orioles had in opposition to Chris Sale on Monday night time.
Orioles supervisor Brandon Hyde mentioned Tuesday he felt Cora was “disrespectful” to the Baltimore hitters. When that remark was relayed to Cora, he sounded shocked and able to try to clean issues over along with his AL East rival.
Cora mentioned his feedback had been about attainable pitch tipping by Sale and never about signal stealing or something shady on Baltimore’s half.
“It wasn’t about pointing the finger at them. If he took it that way, I’ll talk to him right now, but that’s not the case,” Cora mentioned Tuesday. “I used to be the man suspended for what occurred in 2017, so I’m the final man that may accuse any person of doing one thing fallacious if that’s what he thought I used to be saying.”
Cora, who managed Boston to a World Series title in 2018, was suspended for the 2020 season for his function within the Houston Astros’ sign-stealing scandal from 2017. He was the bench coach for that Houston crew.
The Orioles made contact on 40 of their 42 swings in opposition to Sale in their 5-4 win Monday.
“Sliders down and in and they hit it. Fastballs up and away, they hit it. Changeups — at one point there, there was no swing and misses. Tough pitches,” Cora mentioned after the sport. “You’ve got to give credit to them, I guess.”
“We’ve got to take a look at it and see if we find something,” Cora added, “I’m not saying — got to give credit to them, but command was off today.”
When requested about Cora at his pregame news convention Tuesday, Hyde mentioned: “I’m undecided what he was getting at. Honestly fairly disenchanted in listening to that. I assumed it was disrespectful to our hitters, to be sincere with you. I assumed we had an amazing sport plan. I assumed we had main league hitters take actually good at-bats.”
Cora mentioned Tuesday there could be a mechanical adjustment Sale could make.
“We’ve got to get him to be more athletic on the mound,” Cora mentioned. “It’s one thing we seen. He’s a bit bit too stiff.”
Before Tuesday night time’s sport, the Red Sox put infielder Yu Chang on the 10-day injured checklist due to a left-hand fracture. He left Monday’s sport after swinging at a pitch. Cora mentioned Chang was anticipated to see a hand specialist Wednesday in Boston and certain could have surgical procedure Thursday. He may miss six weeks.
Boston recalled utilityman Enmanuel Valdez from Triple-A Worcester.
