The New York Yankees were defeated by the Boston Red Sox 7-1 on Saturday.
The most notable moment from the game came when Yankees’ ace Gerrit Cole elected to intentionally walk Red Sox slugger Rafael Devers in the fourth inning, which incited a meltdown from Cole that ended with Boston scoring seven runs.
While this decision was confusing for many Yankees fans, Boston manager Alex Cora was more upset about the fact that Cole hit Devers with a pitch in the first inning, which he believed was intentional.
Given how revenge works in baseball, it made sense that Boston would try to hit one of the Yankees’ top players as retaliation. And on Sunday, Cora admitted that his team tried to do exactly that.
Before Sunday’s game, MLB.com’s Red Sox insider Ian Browne posted on X, “Alex Cora said yesterday’s situation is closed in his mind. ‘We had our shot in the sixth inning and it didn’t happen.’ The sixth inning is when Bello threw behind Judge but missed him.”
