BOSTON — In their first day after firing the man who built the most recent World Series champion, the Red Sox owners’ played a game of hide and seek with their public.

People sought answers. Boston’s bosses hid.

The Red Sox released a statement Monday morning to confirm the firing of Dave Dombrowski, their president of baseball operations since August 2015, and the appointment of assistant general managers Brian O’Halloran, Ed Romero and Zack Scott to lead the department, with senior vice president of major and minor league operations Raquel Ferreira also assuming an expanded role.

The statement featured full praise of Dombrowski from each of the club’s three leaders — principal owner John Henry, chairman Tom Werner and president and CEO Sam Kennedy — and offered no hint why Dombrowski would be canned despite his success with the franchise.

Yet neither the Red Sox’s power trio nor their interim leadership group made themselves available for questions from a plentiful media. Instead, manager Alex Cora, whom Dombrowski hired in November 2017, spoke alone on behalf of the club.

“Unfair, or fair, I don’t know,” Cora said, when asked if it was fair for him to hold the bag in a situation he didn’t create. “The team already sent a statement. They wanted to make sure that we appreciated what Dave did for the organization. I know that for some people, it’s probably not enough. For others, maybe it is.”

Henry, Werner and Kennedy spoke to the Red Sox players about the decision, Cora divulged, so they were all on site. Kennedy even appeared on the field in a pregame ceremony. And that would represent the extent of their communication and representation on the matter.

Cora said that he learned of Dombrowski’s fate shortly after Dombrowski did, following the Yankees’ 10-5 victory over the Red Sox late Sunday night. He informed the Boston players of the news before holding his postgame news conference.

“It’s not easy,” Cora said. “Tough night for everybody.”

Tough day-after assignment, on top of that, for Cora.