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Boston is 9-20 at home, which is the franchise’s worst home record to begin a season in 94 years.
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As the 2026 MLB season enters its third month, the Red Sox find themselves still searching for their 10th home win.
The Red Sox are 9-20 at Fenway Park this year after falling at home to the Orioles on June 2. That’s the franchise’s worst home record to begin a season since 1932.
The 1932 Red Sox began the year 7-22 at home and finished 43-111, 64 games back of the first-place Yankees.
The worst home record to begin a Red Sox season is owned by the 1927 team which started off 6-23.
There is another modern Sox team in this list’s top five. The 2020 Red Sox began the season 10-19 at Fenway during a season that was shortened to 60 games due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The 2026 Red Sox are 3-7 over their last 10 games and 25-34 overall.
The offense has struggled. They’ve been able to get runners on base, but have had too many missed opportunities and not enough power to make up for it.
Despite being ninth in the league in batting average (.246) and 14th in on-base percentage (.318), the Red Sox are second-to-last in runs (222) and home runs (44). They are 26th in slugging percentage (.318).
Boston’s pitching staff has the eighth-lowest ERA (3.83) in the league and they’re tenth in hits allowed (475).
The Red Sox are 16-14 on the road this season, which is the fourth-best road record in the American League and second among A.L. East teams.
“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,” Red Sox interim manager Chad Tracy said of the team’s performance at Fenway.
There are 102 games left to play. The season is a little more than a third of the way through.
But right now, the Red Sox are last in the A.L. East, 11.5 games back of first place, and off to an historically bad start at home.
Khari A. Thompson
Khari Thompson covers professional sports for Boston.com. Before joining the team in 2022, Khari covered college football for The Clarion Ledger in Jackson, Miss.
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