Aaron Boone pushes back against Alex Cora’s underdog label for Red Sox

Aaron Boone and the Yankees will host the Red Sox in a best-of-three playoff series. (AP Photo/David Banks)A day after the Red Sox clinched their first playoff berth since 2021, Alex Cora didn’t mince words about Boston’s up-and-down 2025 campaign.

“Let’s be honest, nobody thought we were going to make it to October,” Cora said at Fenway Park, per Peter Abraham of The Boston Globe. “Whoever said that, yeah, we’re a playoff team, that’s [expletive] bull-[expletive] to be honest with you. Nobody thought we were going to make it to October.

“It was New York; it was Baltimore; it was Toronto. We believed that we were going to play in October. We set our standards every single day and we hit our…