Bedard's Daily Briefing 04.04.19: Red Sox score runs - and win, Celtics notch quality W, Patriots in 2020

Good morning!

A few random thoughts while I wonder if the Red Sox are just going to be on the road for the entire season...

• While most of you were sleeping, your Olde Towne Team, a) scored for the first time in April, b) scored multiple times, c) won for the first time in April and broke a four-game losing streak. But it didn't look good for a while.


• Red Sox were blanked for the first four innings and trailed 3-1 after five when an A's error botched an inning-ending double play and allowed Boston to eventually tie the game at 3.


• Mitch Moreland rescued the Sox again, and then Mookie Betts had the clincher.


• Alex Cora even pushed all the right buttons with the bullpen.


• For at least a few innings, it felt kind of 2018 again. Maybe that will get them going. We'll see this afternoon.


• Nice work by Gordon Hayward and Co. down the stretch last night in Miami.


• But B-Robb says the key player to a nice win was Jayson Tatum.


• Everyone's worried about this season — and they'll do some more things with trades and the draft — but I took a closer look at 2020. Something is going on there. You put together this inactivity this year and the amount of cap space next year — it's very unusual for this team that plans better than anyone to have such a dichotomy — and I think something's up. Of course, only Bill Belichick knows what that exactly is.


• Patriots Hall of Fame meeting today ... very shrewd by the Patriots to put about 20 media members on the committee. That gets them talking about it, which means fans hear a lot about it and in turn, this becomes a bigger deal (for anyone but the player and his family) than it is in most places and helps fuel their Hall of Fame. Smart.

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