Red Sox closer Kenley Jansen 'wanted to cry' when Alex Cora apologized for Astros' 2017 cheating scandal

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Boston Red Sox closer Kenley Jansen revealed a moment when his manager, Alex Cora, earned Jansen's respect for a lifetime. 

For Cora, it was a moment he knew he needed to have with the former Los Angeles Dodgers on his team in Jansen, Kiké Hernandez and Justin Turner. 

Jansen and Turner joined the Sox this past offseason, while Hernandez has been with the team since the 2021 campaign. All three of them played for the National League pennant-winning Dodgers during the 2017 season.

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Kenley Jansen (74) of the Boston Red Sox is congratulated by manager Alex Cora after a win over the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium June 9, 2023, in New York City. (Elsa/Getty Images)

Baseball fans are familiar with what happened in the 2017 World Series between the Dodgers and Houston Astros. 

Critics contend the Astros should be stripped of their title that year due to their cheating scandal. 

As bench coach of those Astros before taking over as Red Sox manager, Cora owned up to mistakes made by Houston that year in a meeting neither of his three players expected. 

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"I just felt like I wanted to cry at that moment when he said that," Jansen told WEEI.com. "It just felt like a weight came off, for him to step and say we f---ed up as a whole group. Because I felt like that was the best season I ever had in my whole career because I dominated the whole year, dominated the playoffs, and the Houston Astros were the only ones who put the ball in play. 

Kenley Jansen of the Los Angeles Dodgers throws a pitch during the eighth inning