Champagne, cigars and no shirts: Inside the Red Sox clubhouse celebration – Oneida Dispatch

The chants echoed across the Fenway Park concourse, as fans streamed through the narrow corridor celebrating the club’s first playoff appearance in four years. Mere feet away, separated by brick walls that have seen more than their fair share of agony and ecstasy over the years, the 2025 Red Sox were gearing up to do the same. By the time the door to the Red Sox home clubhouse opened to the media more than 15 minutes after the final out, the party was already well underway. Plastic tarps lined the walls and ceilings. Champagne and beer soaked the carpeted floor. The clubhouse furniture that normally adorned the players’ space was nowhere to be found. In its place was an overpowering smell of cigar smoke and a mass of humanity. Most of the players wore the officially licensed red “October Baseball” locker room shirt, though a few dispensed with the playoff merch and opted to go shirtless. Roman Anthony, Marcelo Mayer, Romy Gonzalez and Wilyer Abreu were among that contingent, with the 22-year-old Mayer pouring beer on everyone who crossed his path. Garrett Crochet was front and center as well, channeling his best Stone Cold Steve Austin impression while he stashed
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