Red Sox’ Alex Cora: ‘Nobody thought we were going to make it to October’

BOSTON — Manager Alex Cora believes that the Red Sox have been overlooked dating back to spring training.

“Nobody thought we were gonna make it to October,” Cora said Saturday, after Boston clinched a postseason berth Friday night . “Whoever says that we were a playoff team, that’s (expletive) bull-(expletive), to be honest with you. Nobody thought we were gonna make it to October. It was New York. It was Baltimore. It was Toronto. And we believed we were going to play in October. We set our standards every single day. And we hit our standards.

MLB.com had 59 voters predict each division winner and postseason winners before the season. The website chose the Red Sox to win both the AL East and AL Pennant.

The Red Sox also received the most votes among FanGraphs’ staff members to w