"Jose Reyes took the lead in the NL batting race on Monday with his eighth-inning double as he finally admitted that he's thinking about the crown.

"I can't lie to you when I see it on the scoreboard," said Reyes, who went 3-for-4. "I don't want to put anything in my head, but no doubt I think about it with only two days left."

Reyes (.33396), trying to become the first Met to win the title, leads Milwaukee's Ryan Braun (.33393) by the tiniest of margins after Braun's pinch-hit double last night, but Reyes was disappointed with himself after he was caught off second base in the eighth.

"I went too far," Reyes said after the 6-5 loss to the Reds. "It cost us the game.""