We felt Ian has the right mix of experience, coaching ability and ambition to take take us forward.

When ambition exceeds ability, you are going to experience hardship. We have the choice to fear it or embrace it.

The No. 1 thing for us right now is obviously just playing the game to the best of our ability. And that's how the streak began, I think. Every team has wanted to do its best.

Kenny's a kid that has the ability to do a lot of good things for us. Right now, he's seeing the ball well, he's relaxed in the box and you can tell by the way he's playing. He's hitting the ball hard consistently. He's throwing the baseball well for us on the mound. Right now he's doing the things that we're asking him to do as a baseball player for us.

If a couple things don't fall our way, New Bedford has the ability to blow us right out of the building. We need to stay right with New Bedford and wrestle them strong in all of the weight classes.

I can't say enough about Olivo and what he's done for us. [But] Ramon has experience; he's one of the best catchers in the game. It's nice to see him back there.