BOSTON — Fenway Park has been anything but friendly for the Boston Red Sox this season.A 4-2 loss to the Baltimore Orioles on Tuesday dropped the Red Sox to a major-league worst 9-20 at home. It marks their worst record through 29 home games since a 7-22 start at home in 1932.“Sick of it,” lamented Isiah Kiner-Falefa of the team’s home woes. “It’s kind of back down the same rabbit hole.”Coming off a commanding series win over the American League Central-leading Cleveland Guardians over the weekend, the Red Sox finally had a chance to find their rhythm at home.Instead, the 18 runs they’d scored in their previous two games in Cleveland were a distant memory as they scratched out just five hits against the Orioles. Even Jarren Duran’s leadoff triple and a Wilyer Abreu sacrifice fly that game them an early 1-0 lead wasn’t enough of a spark.“It’s obvious, the way we’ve played so well on the road and it’s been a struggle here as far as wins and losses are concerned,” interim manager Chad Tracy said.Connelly Early, who entered the day with a 2.95 ERA, faltered. The Orioles tagged him for a solo homer in the second to tie the game and a two-run shot in the third to take the lead. A sacrifice fly in the fourth made it 4-1.Early battled through long at-bats, needing 49 pitches through two innings. He still managed to pitch 5 1/3 innings, finishing with 96 pitches, but he was frustrated with the outing. He’s now allowed six homers in his last four starts.“I’ve given up a lot of home runs, so still trying to figure that one out,” he said.“I think we did a really good job in this past series (in Cleveland) on all sides of the ball, and then to lose the momentum that we had built over the past couple games is tough,” Early added.After Duran’s triple in the first, the Red Sox went down in order in the second, third and fourth before Mickey Gasper singled in the fifth and scored on a Marcelo Mayer sacrifice fly. Caleb Durbin doubled in the next at-bat but was stranded when Duran struck out. The Red Sox had baserunners in each of the next three innings, but failed to capitalize in the late innings as they have on the road, where they’ve gone 16-14.Kiner-Falefa noted there’s been a different feel when the team is away from home.“I just feel like on the road, we’re a very close-knit team,” he said. “We’ve come home and there’s just a lot of people around. It’s just a different vibe at home. And we got to figure out a way to make it small like how it is on the road.”The Red Sox have now lost nine of their last 11 games at home. As they struggle to figure out their home record, they only have two games left in this short homestand before six games back on the road against the New York Yankees and Tampa Bay Rays beginning Friday.“We still have two games here, so hopefully we can win two in a row, just like we did in Cleveland and get things back on our side,” Kiner-Falefa said. “But, yeah, it’s the same story over and over again. Sick of it. I think everybody in here is sick of it. We got to find a way to be better.”Despite the loss, the Red Sox received some better news on left-hander Garrett Crochet, who was shut down over the weekend with a left lat strain.An MRI on Tuesday revealed a very low-grade lat strain and Crochet will be able to begin throwing when he’s asymptomatic. Prior to the game, Crochet said he was still feeling tightness and has been frustrated with the starts and stops since landing on the injury list April 26 with shoulder inflammation.Meanwhile, shortstop Trevor Story returned to Boston on Tuesday for the first time since his sports hernia surgery 10 days ago. The 33-year-old is in the early stages of rehab with light walking as the main form of movement before he progresses to light core work.Story said doctors have given him a timetable of eight to 12 weeks to return, but it’s dependent on how quickly he responds in rehab.That timetable puts Story out well past the All-Star break and approaching the trade deadline, at which point the Red Sox may look like a very different team if they can’t figure out how to start winning at home.Jun 3, 2026Connections: Sports EditionSpot the pattern. Connect the termsFind the hidden link between sports terms