By Daniel Stoller

When the Red Sox won the ALCS Sunday, securing their place in the World Series, Fenway Park broke into bedlam. As hordes of fans streamed loudly into the streets, those who had been watching the game at nearby bars and homes joined the crowds for an impromptu rally.

Joe Forbes, a freshman computer science major, watched the game with a friend at 319 Huntington Ave.

“After the game ended, we decided to run to Fenway to be part of the celebrations,” Forbes said.

When he and his friends arrived, the crowd was already large and rowdy. As riot police stood next to the crowd, he witnessed one girl having a bottle thrown at her by a male, he said. The police mainly kept crowds out of the street, but they did make some arrests.

“I saw a guy on the ground covered in puke, being interrogated by police officers,” Forbes said.

Eventually, that man was arrested and hauled away in handcuffs, he said.

After Sunday night’s game, the Boston Police Department (BPD) arrested and arraigned 17 people for disorderly conduct. One Northeastern student, Michael Ross Slade, 22, who lives off-campus in Roxbury, was arrested, according to a press release from the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office.

Rowdy gatherings following sporting events are nothing new to Boston, and more specifically, Northeastern. Following the Patriots’ 2004 Super Bowl win, riots occurring in the areas surrounding Northeastern resulted in the university disciplining at least 15 students.

A car driving through the riot, consisting mostly of college students, hit and killed 21-year-old James Grabowskias well as three other injuries.

Before that, following the Sox’s win over the Yankees in the 2004 ALCS, Joey Fiore, Student Government Association (SGA) president said, “Total pandemonium broke out. Students were rushing out of residence halls to Fenway to celebrate with peers.”

In that incident, a student at Emerson College, Victoria Snelgrove, was killed after a pellet from a police officer’s pepper-pellet gun struck her in the eye.

“That night, when the event occurred where the young woman from Emerson was fatally wounded, was out of control,” Fiore said.

This year has been more in control, Fiore said.

“The night we won the ALCS, myself and vice president [Rob] Ranley walked down to Fenway,” to assess the situation, Fiore said. But this time, “it was different. Northeastern students weren’t rushing like they were before. People celebrated [on campus].”

Furthermore, there is less tension preceding this World Series.

“A, this is not an 80 plus year wait, and B, we were not playing the dreaded Yankees in the ALCS,” Fiore said.

Still, he said he has tried to keep students in control.

“In the Senate meeting on Monday, I told senators to tell their roommates and friends