Thursday, 4:30 PM
Sox win division title, but you wouldn't know it on the streets
(Evan Richman/Globe Staff)
Wearing a rally cap, Jen Hosker was one of those outside Fenway Park cheering as the New York Yankees lost their game, allowing the Red Sox to clinch the American League East
By Marc Robins, Globe Correspondent
Outside Fenway Park, in front of the Game On! bar on Lansdowne Street, a crowd of several hundred people burst into cheers after the Red Sox won their first division title in 12 years.
But the crowd soon dispersed. And the streets were relatively quiet outside the park and in nearby Kenmore Square late tonight.
"You gotta believe they are going to pull through," said an exuberant Laura Cappuccio of Merrimack, N.H., after emerging from the park.
In Kenmore Square, Janaya Cameron of Boston was overjoyed: "All I can say is: this is the most amazing thing in the world for the best fans in the world."
Michael Harris of Las Vegas was in Boston for just one night, and luck apparently was on his side.
"It's phenomenal," he said. "Getting to see the Red Sox become AL East champs on my one day here was the best thing that could have happened."
The calm on the streets was a far cry from the rowdy celebrations of 2004, the year the Red Sox won the World Series. During one, an Emerson College student was fatally shot by a pepper pellet fired by Boston police.
