Fenway Electricity Raises Next-Day Goosebumps

The same enthusiasm that shook Fenway Park from its green trusses to its gray reinforced concrete on Wednesday night raised goosebumps on the arms of Megan DiMambro Thursday afternoon.

The goosebumps returned as she recalled the electricty in the old ballpark for the Red Sox first World Series win at home in almost a century— 6-1 over the St. Louis Cardinals in Game 6.

Megan, an Olympia Sports district manager working the Swampscott store Thursday, was at Fenway Wednesday night, sitting in the right field grandstand not far from Johnny Pesky's Pole.

She and others feared the crowd might be a corporate crowd, a less enthusiastic bunch who could afford the Game 6 price tag of $2,000 for a middle-of-the-road seat on the secondary market.

Oh no, she said.

These weren't wet blankets or stuffed shirts in the seats. They were crisp cotton shirts snapping in the breeze on a backyard clothesline.

This crowd was made of fans.

They stood most the game. It seemed odd when they sat down, she said.

They serenaded the players, singing Bob Marley's Three Little Birds and other numbers not to mention Sweet Caroline.

They cheered wildly.

She and they were delirious when Shane Victorino slammed a two-out wall-ball to drive in three runs in the third inning.

Victorino thumped his chest and the Fenway fandoms' yells nearly peeled the green paint from the walls as the hit propelled the Sox to a lead they would never relinquish.

It's a game New England won't soon forget.

Megan goes to maybe two or three games a year but this one she will remember for the electricity and volume in the ballpark air.

"It was the loudest I have ever heard it there," she said.

So electric that she still had goosebumps Thursday.