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- Updated: August 20, 2016
SAN FRANCISCO — Terry Collins said “the hits keep coming” Thursday night after revealing that yet another Mets regular had succumbed to an injury.
But the New York manager finally offered some positive injury-related news before Friday’s game vs. the Giants, confirming that both Yoenis Cespedes (strained right quad) and Asdrubal Cabrera (strained patellar tendon in left knee) were activated from the 15-day disabled list. Ty Kelly and T.J. Rivera were optioned to Triple-A Las Vegas in a corresponding roster move.
Cespedes and Cabrera were both in the starting lineup Friday and will give the Mets a look they’ve been missing for the majority of August.
“We’re going to look a little different the next few days,” said Collins, whose club lost nine of its last 14 games without Cespedes. “It’s another dynamic that we haven’t had; it’s going to make us better.”
Friday was the first time Cespedes was in a Mets uniform fully healthy since early July.
The second-year Met continued to play despite suffering a right quad strain July 8. But the Mets elected to place …
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