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Alex Cora Out as Red Sox Manager After Cheating Scandal

Reinhold Matay/USA Today Sports, via Reuters

The Boston Red Sox parted ways with Manager Alex Cora on Tuesday night, a day after a Major League Baseball report implicated him in a cheating scandal from his time as the bench coach of the Houston Astros in 2017.

Cora, who was hired by the Red Sox in 2018 and immediately led the team to a World Series victory that season, was one of the central figures in an illicit scheme to steal opposing catchers’ signs via a video feed and communicate them to the Astros’ hitters, according to the report.