MANCHESTER — The Fisher Cats rallied nicely to dig out of an early hole and got major contributions from their newest addition, but in the end they came up short once again at Northeast Delta Dental Stadium in front of 6,909 in a sunny Sunday matinee.

This time, they allowed a run in the top of the ninth inning and fell to the Bowie Baysox, 6-5, to drop their fourth straight game in what has become their personal home of horrors.

“It seems like we’re going uphill a lot,” said Fisher Cat manager Sal Fasano. “To their credit, they scratch and claw. It’s just hard when you’re always climbing the mountain. One of these days you just want to slide down.”

Bowie, the last place team in the Eastern League’s Western Conference, swept a three-game series and improved to 27-34.

New Hampshire brings up the rear in the Eastern Conference and fell to 22-39. The Fisher Cats are 9-24 at home and were 1-5 this homestand.

They were due to hit the road at 1 this morning, bound first for Richmond before moving on to Bowie. They are off today, play three games in Richmond starting on Tuesday and then three more in Bowie.

“It’s been a tough homestand, definitely,” said designated hitter Gabe Jacobo. “Hopefully we go on the road, win a few and come back home and keep that momentum going.”

On Sunday, the Fisher Cats, down 4-0 early, tied the game in the bottom of the eighth, only to give the winning run back.

Bowie No. 9 hitter Brian Ward opened the top of the ninth inning with a single off reliever Aaron Loup through the left side of the infield. Josh Barfield came on as a pinch-runner and moved to second on a sacrifice bunt.

After a pop out for the second out, Loup got Jonathan Schoop to hit a grounder to second baseman John Tolisano. The ball went through his legs and Barfield came around to score.

“I know John probably feels like garbage for making that error,” Fasano said. “We actually got out of a big jam. But sometimes when you don’t get the breaks, you just don’t get them and when it rains, it pours.”

The loss wasted the comeback and a big game from Kenan Bailli, who played right field in his Fisher Cat and Double-A debut.

A 27-year-old originally from Cuba, Bailli was up from Dunedin and grounded out his first time up and then had four straight hits, including a leadoff double in the eighth.

“I’ve had him a few different times,” Fasano said. “He’s a great kid and he plays with a lot of energy and he really enjoys playing the game. It’s nice to see that kind of youthful enthusiasm. Hopefully he can help and maybe give us a little bit more life.”

The Baysox bunched five of their nine hits in the first two innings and took advantage of a couple of walks issued by Fisher Cat starter Joel Carreno to score two runs in the first and two more in the second.

The home team got single runs in the third, in the fifth on a Tolisano home run and the sixth when Brian Van Kirk singled in Jacobo.

The Fisher Cats finally got even at 5-5 with a pair of runs in the bottom of the eighth.

Bailli and Van Kirk started the rally with back-to-back doubles. Two outs later, Tolisano walked and Brian Bocock knocked in Van Kirk with a slow roller down the line that went under the glove of third baseman Zelous Wheeler.

Mike McDade walked to load the bases, but Sean Ochinko flied out to center to end the inning and they went to the ninth.

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OCHINKO knocked in a run when he grounded out in the third, but was 0-for-4 and had his consecutive game hitting streak snapped at 14 ... Bocock and Van Kirk each had two of the 11 Fisher Cat hits.