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SAN FRANCISCO -- Yoenis Cespedes doesnt feel his timing is all back after a stint on the disabled list.But its hard to imagine its off that much, either.Cespedes hit two long home runs and added an RBI double in his second game back from the disabled list, boosting Bartolo Colon and the New York Mets over the San Francisco Giants 9-5 Saturday.The Mets had lost five of six before topping the team that began the day leading the NL West. The Giants dropped to 11-22 since the All-Star break.Cespedes, whod been out since Aug. 4 with a strained right quadriceps, drove in three runs. He has 24 homers this season.It was his show today, Mets second baseman Neil Walker said. He had a great day.The sluggers shot off Matt Moore (7-10) in the third inning went 457 feet, according to Statcast.com.Cespedes added a 418-footer off reliever Jake Peavy in the seventh.Today was a good day, I think for any ballplayer you could say today was an excellent day, Cespedes said through a translator. I cant say that the timing is 100 percent back, though. Well see what goes on next.The Mets are hoping that whats next for Cespedes is another second-half power surge, like the one he had last season that took them to the World Series.Hes the guy in the lineup who does a lot of the damage, so when hes there it makes it a little easier on the guys behind him and it takes the pressure off, Mets manager Terry Collins said. They kind of feed off what he does.Alejandro De Aza hit a three-run homer during a four-run sixth that stretched the Mets lead to 7-2.Colon (11-7) allowed two runs, scattering nine hits and a walk in 6 1/3 innings. He has three quality starts in four outings this month and a 2.25 ERA in August.I think everything worked out well, Colon said through a translator. I was throwing a lot of sinkers, the ball out here moves a lot for me.Colons pitches hit the strike zone with pinpoint accuracy. On a day when the Mets needed the 43-year-old right-hander to go deep into the game with a bullpen taxed, he threw 103 pitches -- 73 for strikes.Hes not worried about lighting up the radar, hes worried about missing barrels, Walker said. It makes it difficult as a hitter when you have to cover a lot of the plate and thats what he does.Moore, acquired at the trading deadline from Tampa Bay to bolster the back end of the Giants rotation, is 0-3 with a 4.70 ERA in four starts with his new team.Moore gave up three earned runs and five hits in five innings. It was the first time in 13 outings he pitched less than six innings going back to June 2.Im not getting ahead of the hitters and then Im losing them, he said. I didnt do a very good job of managing the game with the 90 pitches they gave (me).Denard Span hit a splash home run off Colon into the San Francisco Bay in the third. The home run was Spans seventh and his second splash hit this season.Angel Pagan extended his hitting streak to 18 games with a bunt single in the first. The Giants outfielder exited after three innings with tightness in his right groin.BABY WATCHMets second baseman Neil Walker will fly to his home in Pittsburgh after Sunday nights game to be with his wife Niki for the expected birth of their baby girl. Walker said doctors will induce the birth on Monday night, a Mets off day. Walker said his wife is doing well. Its just been a big waiting game, Walker said. I knew as soon as she got pregnant that wed probably be out here on the West Coast, whether it was here or Arizona or St. Louis, we knew that was going to be challenging.LINED UPThe Giants have set their rotation ahead of their pivotal three-game series at Dodger Stadium next week, with the trio of Madison Bumgarner, Johnny Cueto and Moore set to start the Aug. 23-25 series, manager Bruce Bochy said.TRAINERS ROOMMets: RHP Jim Henderson was activated from the disabled list on Saturday. The hard-throwing setup man had been on the disabled list since June 21 with shoulder tendinitis. In a corresponding move RHP Tyler Goeddel was optioned to Triple-A Las Vegas.Giants: Pairing up C Buster Posey with Moore for the first time factored in Bochys decision to start the All-Star catcher in a day game after a night game. Bochy sat Posey for two straight games earlier in the week because of lower back tightness. ... 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NEW YORK -- For 68 minutes out on Arthur Ashe Stadium, it looked like the king was back.Novak Djokovic told EPSN analyst Brad Gilbert on his way out to the court that I missed tennis, to be honest -- he had played just six games and 31 minutes in the past five days since his opener at Flushing Meadows.Tennis and Djokovic were reunited Sunday night, with Kyle Edmund, Andy Murrays young 21-year-old British protege, given a lesson in the first two sets by a master who was not even at his best.I thought I came out of the blocks really good, Djokovic said in an on-court interview, after wrapping up his 6-2, 6-1, 6-4 win. I had a high intensity. Its not easy waiting the entire day, until 10 30 in the evening, to start with the right intensity.But I made Kyle work for each point. I wanted to move him around the court. The baseline shots, both the forehand and the backhand were working well. Im most pleased with that.For those first two sets, it was as one-sided as it gets in a round-of-16 major tie. The Serb, who had won their only other meeting 6-3, 6-3 at Miami earlier this year, was ruthlessly efficient; he was as frighteningly flexible on defense as ever, sliding and stretching and returning everything.He anticipated almost every shot Edmund would make -- he got the text before Edmund even sent it, as Gilbert said on commentary.All the questions Djokovic faced coming into the tournament, into this match -- the personal problems that contributed to his early Wimbledon exit; his first-round defeat in Rio; withdrawing from Cincinnati; the wrist and arm injuries he struggled with in his unconvincing first-round win against Jerzy Janowicz; the lack of time on court here -- were all being emphatically answered.It even looked like the crowd was going to see a second match of the night session, which was shorter than the wait they faced to get into Ashe Stadium, after Lucas Pouille finally beat Rafael Nadal in 4 hours, 7 minutes, finishing their day-session matchup around 7:30 p.m and delaying the start of proceedings.But then Djokovics injury problems resurfaced, and Edmund -- whom the world No. 1 had toyed with up until that point -- got up off the canvas to battle back from 2-0 down to 2-2 in the third set.Djokovic began to llook at his box.dddddddddddd He called for the ATP trainer, Clay Sniteman, and received vigorous treatment to his right elbow in a three-minute medical timeout. When they stepped back out, Edmund immediately broke him for a 3-2 lead, in what was a wild turn of events. Suddenly there was a sense that it could become an uncomfortable night for the Serb.But the crisis was averted and Djokovic, seemingly almost affronted by having his superiority questioned, restored normal order by breaking Edmund twice more to close out the win in 1 hour, 55 minutes.The No. 1 concern to Djokovic, though, will be the seven double faults he committed, and the paltry three aces he sent down. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, his quarterfinal opponent at Flushing Meadows, could well take it to him if he serves up similar stats on Tuesday.The treatment Djokovic received on his elbow had also looked painful. No, it was good. It was good. Everything was fine, he later told a media conference.When asked why he called for the trainer, Djokovic smiled and tried to bat away any concern with his characteristic humour. I needed a little bit of massage, he quipped. I like Clay. That was a little deal we had before the match.The world No. 1s four completed sets were the fewest any man has played to get to the second week of a major in the Open era, and, in the end, he was just glad to shake off the cobwebs.Im feeling very good. I really wanted to start the match well today because I didnt have much time on the court overall before the fourth round, he added. Very pleased, except a little drop in the level in the third set, midway through the third set. Other than that, everything was great.Considering I had some struggles before the tournament, I feel great at this moment physically; mentally as well Im motivated. So coming into the second week of a Grand Slam quarterfinals feeling good, its exactly where I want to be.Unusually for Djokovic, he faced a lot of question marks coming into this US Open, more than he has had to answer at the start of a major for a long time, and the stark truth is that not all of them have been answered yet. ' ' '