John Henry has joined the Red Sox in Seattle, but the owner claims that he did not make the trip to the West Coast to fire Bobby Valentine.

The Red Sox, in the middle of a nine-game road trip, were swept by the Angels and Athletics ahead of a series with the Mariners.

"No!" Henry wrote in response to an e-mail asking if he planned to fire Boston's manager because of the recent losing streak.

"Nothing going on other than a bad losing streak," Ben Cherington, who also joined the team in Seattle, wrote in another email.