MLB will not suspend Alex Cora after she suggested the Red Sox intentionally threw at Yankees' Aaron Judge, according to report

According to MassLive.com, Major League Baseball will not suspend Red Sox manager Alex Cora for his comments on Saturday. The league launched an investigation after Cora suggested on Sunday that the Red Sox tried to hit Aaron Judge to retaliate for Gerrit Cole intentionally hitting Rafael Devers earlier in Saturday's game. That investigation apparently turned up nothing conclusive enough to punish Cora.

Yankees ace Gerrit Cole was beaten by the Red Sox on Saturday in a 7-1 loss. In the fourth inning, with New York leading 1-0, Cole decided to intentionally walk Red Sox third baseman Devers, even though there were no baserunners and only one out (full story here).

While many focused on the oddity of the IBB, Red Sox manager Alex Cora addressed something else. Specifically, he connected the dots from that free pass to the first inning when Cole Devers scored on a pitch. Cora's theory was that Cole didn't want to face Devers, which was illustrated by the intentional walk, so the HBP on an 0-1 cutter must have been intentional.

“I felt like he hit him on the first pitch intentionally,” Cora said (via NESN). “He doesn't want to face him, that's the bottom line. He told us with the intentional walk that he hit him on the first pitch. We'll leave it at that. After that, he loaded all the bases and had to face him.”

As Cora noted, Dever's third at-bat was with the bases loaded, and with no room for him, Cole allowed a two-RBI single.

“We rejected (the HBP) ​​because it was loud and clear that he did not want to face him,” Cora said. “It was intentional, I will not back down. It was intentional.”

In the sixth inning of Saturday's game, Red Sox starter Brayan Bello faced Aaron Judge and threw the first pitch behind his knees, missing the Yankees batter. On Sunday, Cora apparently admitted that the Red Sox were trying to tie the score at that point by intentionally hitting Judge.

“It was closed [Saturday] about the sixth inning. We had our chance. It didn't happen.”

Before Saturday, Devers had hit 14-of-41 (.341) with a double and eight home runs against Cole in his career — regular season and postseason combined. All eight home runs came between 2021 and 2024. The last time they faced each other was July 6, when Devers hit a home run in his third and final at-bat against Cole.