Sometimes the aftermath of a baseball fight provides as much intrigue and drama as the scrum itself.
Yesterday was one of those times in the bulging scrapbook of scrappy Yankees-Red Sox relations.
Two rookie managers in Alex Cora of the Red Sox and Aaron Boone of the Yankees proved they understood exactly how, without fanning the flames, of not shutting off the flame of one more Red Sox-Yankees brawl.
Another way to put it is, the team’s former managers, John Farrell and Joe Girardi, would have filled up reporters’ notepads with as much genuine reflection as Cora and Boone provided.