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BOSTON — Boston Red Sox manager Alex Cora doesn't know yet whether pitcher Tanner Houck will need surgery for a facial fracture he sustained when he was hit below the right eye by a line drive from the New York Yankees' Kyle Higashioka on Friday. Cora said Sunday morning before Boston faced New York in the opener of a split doubleheader that Houck will see a doctor at the end of the week. Higashioka led off the fifth inning and lined Houck's 92 mph sinker straight up the middle, hitting the 26-year-old right-hander. Houck received stitches and was checked at a hospital after he walked off the mound on his own.
