Carlos Pena has a blog

Rays first baseman Carlos Pena (at right with Manager Joe Maddon, mlb.com) has been keeping a blog, and he said it wasn't the first time he had made a big statement at Fenway Park -- he played there all the time in his imagination.

This is so cool. When I lived in Haverhill growing up in Boston, we used to live at kind of a corner, so it looked like a baseball stadium. We would pick one of the corners to be home plate. And then we would hit up against the house that was right in front of us, with plastic balls, obviously, because we would have broken all the windows otherwise.

My brothers and I used to play, and we used to hit so many home runs over the Green Monster in our minds. "Ah, home run over the Green Monster, yeah!" And I was doing that when I was 13, after I got to this country from the Dominican Republic for the first time.

And all this was a dream, that's all it was. And the next thing you know, I'm still doing it at 30 years old, and actually doing it -- really doing it. Tonight's home run, last night's home run, those were like a dream -- something I'd done before in my mind.

The Rays play the Phillies at the Trop on Wednesday at 5 p.m. PST.