Alex Cora, leading Red Sox into a promising future, answers for his past in Houston

“I’ve been telling the guys, and you guys can ask them if you guys want to, but they know I put myself in this situation. I handle the situation the way I’m going to handle it. I’m not afraid to talk about it. It’s part of who I am,” Cora said before an 11-2 loss. “It’s part of my present, it was part of the past, and it’s going to be part of my future. It’s something — I’m not proud of it — but at the same time, I’ve got a job to do.”