BOSTON -- Red Sox manager Alex Cora has been careful not to divulge his postseason strategies -- be they roster formations or in-game alignments -- until his team officially clinches the American League East.
But as his 102-47 team inched closer to that goal (the magic number is five) on Saturday with a 5-3 victory over the Mets at Fenway Park, Cora offered hints of the way he will deploy his personnel in October.
When Mets manager Mickey Callaway seemed to back the Red Sox into a corner by issuing an intentional walk to Rafael Devers that sent the light-hitting Sandy Leon (.