"Jason Bay nearly hit a go-ahead home run in the seventh inning of Sunday's loss, but his smash got what might be termed "Citi Field-ed" instead, smacking into the top of the left-field wall for a double.

"Any other park in the universe, that's a home run," said Bay's teammate, R.A. Dickey. But Bay has plenty of experience with the Mets' pitchers-park home, and he said he did not think his drive was a homer. "Hoped? Yes," he said.

"It's really hard to think anything is gone here," Bay added. "And I mean that truthfully. I think the guys who play here understand that."

Bay knows that much is made of the park's spacious dimensions and admits "sometimes it's frustrating. ... It would be nice to have a go-ahead home run in that situation. Maybe things turn out differently, but that's reality. At times it helps you, at times it hurts you.

"I can't really make much of the ballpark, because it's not like they just instituted this wall yesterday. It has been there. Like I said, sometimes it frustrates you. But it's where we play.""