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Cora on clinching the AL East BOSTON -- There's no one-size-fits-all formula for preparing for October.

A year ago with the Astros, then-bench coach Alex Cora watched workhorse Justin Verlander throw 110 pitches in his final regular-season start while Charlie Morton dialed it back to just 64 pitches. Morton and Verlander made a combined nine October starts as the Astros marched to a World Series championship.

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Now as manager of the Red Sox, Cora similarly will let his pitchers decide what works best for them to prepare for the American League Division Series. He has generally taken it easy with his starters in September -- no Sox starter has thrown more than 101 pitches…