Alex Cora Might Fight Luis Severino For Throwing At Mookie's Head
THAT’S. MY. MOTHER. FUCKING. MANAGER.
Jared will be back soon with the full recap of Game 2 of this series but he’s busy right now walking Hubbs around Boston like a lost puppy looking for his owner. I’m only here to call Severino a coward and gas up #MyManager. So, here we go. Luis Severino is a coward. All that time learning from Pedro in the offseason and clearly he learned nothing at all. If Pedro wanted to hit someone he’d hit them. Didn’t particularly need a reason, guy just hit people when he felt they needed hitting. He also didn’t fall apart in the second half of Cy Young caliber seasons and transform into a middle of the rotation guy who couldn’t even qualify for quality starts in must win games with the division slipping away. Which, if I’m reading the quotes right, is essentially what Cora was getting at here.
Brett Gardner dug into the box to start the game. Rick Porcello worked him to a 0-2 count, which as everyone knows is the perfect count to hit a guy, and Gardy proceeded to drape his elbow over the plate to the point where he was nearly in the opposite batter’s box. Somehow he got hit here and the Yankees simply could not believe Porcello would commit such a heinous act. This injustice would not go quietly into the night. Not on Aaron Boone’s watch.
So Luis Severino comes out and throws at Mookie’s head in retaliation immediately. I’m not one of these guys who thinks you should never throw at the other team under any circumstances. Just keep it away from the head. You want to groove a guy in the ribs? Not ideal, but I get it. Unwritten rules and whatnot. You go near a guy’s head – MVP candidate or worst player on the team – there should be problems. And Alex Cora had plenty of time for said problems.
Cora earned every bit of his first career ejection as a manager. And it was with good reason. By all accounts this team loves playing for Cora and this is really the first time he’s had to jump out to their defense like this. To say he passed with flying colors would be a gross understatement. And since Porcello pitched what I can only assume was the fastest game in the history of the Red Sox and Yankees, Cora didn’t have nearly enough time for his head to cool leading to this ETHER in the postgame press conference.
“Buddy couldn’t even qualify for a quality start??? 115 pitches in less than six innings? Couldn’t be my starting pitcher. P.U. More like Luis Stinkerino, imho.” – Alex Cora.
The rivalry is nowhere near what it was when David Ortiz and Gabe Kapler had Tanyon Sturtz reaching for the ropes, but hearing Cora tonight and watching Steve Pearce go big fly moments after Severino threw at Mookie definitely made it move a little. The benches clearing at some point this weekend after the Yankees have been so thoroughly embarrassed on top of tonight’s extracurriculars would surprise me 0%.
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