Fenway Park had become a house of horrors for the Red Sox over the last few summers.
While Boston’s batters have long relished 82 games spent peppering the Green Monster or golfing hanging breaking balls onto Landsdowne Street, Alex Cora’s club had failed to take advantage of the friendly confines of Fenway as of late.
As noted by Alex Speier of The Boston Globe, the Red Sox have only posted a .500 record at Fenway Park from 2019-24 — with that substandard performance in their own ballpark dipping to a paltry 77-85 record in home games over the last two seasons.