Alex Cora fired: How former Red Sox manager replied to Sam Kennedy’s email

In the early hours of Sunday morning , Alex Cora responded to Sam Kennedy’s email about the decision to fire the longtime Red Sox manager. Cora hit “reply all” in order to send a message to every member of the Red Sox organization. MassLive’s Chris Cotillo reported that just before 4 a.

m. , Cora sent an email thanking everyone for the support. “The Cora’s will be OK,” he said with a winking face emoji.

Cora was fired hours after the Red Sox mollywhopped the Baltimore Orioles, 17-1, on Saturday afternoon. After the postgame dinner, Cora returned to the Four Seasons Hotel in Baltimore where principal owner John Henry, team president/CEO Sam Kennedy and chief baseball officer Craig Breslow awaited to break the news. “Incredibly difficult day,” Kennedy told MassLive outside the hotel .

“We’ll discuss more tomorrow. Grateful to Alex for everything he has done for the organization and all the guys. We’re gonna move forward tomorrow.