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It’s been a memorable year for the first-time manager, whose Red Sox have dominated baseball. But he has not ignored the plight back home in Puerto Rico

With last night’s 11-6 win over the New York Yankees, the Boston Red Sox have clinched the American League East with plenty of games to spare and find themselves a mere win away from tying a franchise record. With their 104-49 record, the Red Sox are in the driver’s seat in the race for the best record in the MLB. In other words, it’s been a pretty solid year so far for the storied ball club, who have accomplished all this under the watch of their first-time manager, Alex Cora.

The Yankees were the favorites to win the division and, for much of the year, the two teams were neck-to-neck. The Red Sox, however, started to run away with the division after mortally wounding the Yankees’ chances with a four-game sweep in early August. For the remainder of the regular season, Boston’s biggest competition might be themselves. Before this season, the 1912 Red Sox set the team record for most games won in a season with 105. With nine more games to go, it’s likely that this year’s team will pick up the two wins needed to set the record (although the 1912 Sox only had 156 games to work with, rather than 162). Cora’s 104 wins also amount to the second largest total in MLB history for a rookie manager. The Yankees won 109 games during Ralph Houk’s first year as skipper back in 1961, and it’s not impossible that these Sox will challenge that.

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