BALTIMORE — Boston Red Sox supervisor Alex Cora says he was once now not accusing the Baltimore Orioles of anything else nefarious when he identified how few swing-and-misses they’d in opposition to Chris Sale on Monday night time.
Orioles supervisor Brandon Hyde mentioned Tuesday he felt Cora was once “disrespectful” to the Baltimore hitters. When that remark was once relayed to Cora, he sounded stunned and able to attempt to clean issues over together with his AL East rival.
Cora mentioned his feedback have been about conceivable tone tipping by means of Sale and now not about signal stealing or anything else shady on Baltimore’s section.
“It wasn’t about pointing the finger at them,” Cora mentioned Tuesday. “If he took it that way, I’ll talk to him right now, but that’s not the case. I was the guy suspended for what happened in 2017, so I’m the last guy that can accuse somebody of doing something wrong if that’s what he thought I was saying.”
Cora, who controlled Boston to a International Line name in 2018, was once suspended for the 2020 season for his position within the Houston Astros‘ sign-stealing scandal from 2017. He was once the bench tutor for that Houston group.
The Orioles made touch on 40 in 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 later the sport. “You’ve got to give credit to them, I guess.”
He added: “We’ve got to take a look at it and see if we find something. I’m not saying — got to give credit to them, but command was off today.”
When requested about Cora at his pregame information convention Tuesday, Hyde mentioned: “I’m not sure what he was getting at. Honestly pretty disappointed in hearing that. I thought it was disrespectful to our hitters, to be honest with you. I thought we had a great game plan. I thought we had major league hitters take really good at-bats.”
Cora mentioned Tuesday there may well be a mechanical adjustment Sale can form.
“We’ve got to get him to be more athletic on the mound,” Cora mentioned. “It’s something we noticed. He’s a little bit too stiff.”
Ahead of Tuesday night time’s recreation, the Purple Sox put infielder Yu Chang at the 10-day injured checklist on account of a left hand break. He left Monday’s recreation later swinging at a tone. Cora mentioned Chang was once anticipated to look a hand specialist Wednesday in Boston and most probably can have surgical procedure Thursday. He may just omit six weeks.
Boston recalled worth guy Enmanuel Valdez from Triple-A Worcester.
