Even for a World Series Champion, watching from the sidelines during postseason baseball is gut-wrenching.

Red Sox manager Alex Cora is a former player with 13 years of playing experience during his career. However, none of those games makes it any easier being the manager of a team in October.

“It seems like I am not engaged from here out, right, for the camera, but [in my heart] and [head], I am very engaged,” said Cora before Thursday’s do-or-die Game 3 of the AL Wild Card Series against the Yankees . “I feel it every single game. Every single day. That’s the reason I am doing this. I love it. And, you know, I enjoy when they do well. I suffer when they struggle.

“The goal was for us to make it to October and have a deep run in October and make it to the World Series and win it. S

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