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OAKLAND, Calif. -- Yoenis Cespedes struck out looking in his first at-bat, then quickly regained the stroke that has made him such a central part of the Athletics lineup. On a day when Oaklands pitching wasnt crisp, the Cuban sluggers timing couldnt have been better. Cespedes had three hits and matched his career high with four RBIs on his most productive day since winning the Home Run Derby, and the As rallied from five runs down to beat the Los Angeles Angels 10-6 on Sunday. "Ive been working a lot, every single day, to try to get the swing that I got today," Cespedes said. "I didnt feel really well in the first at-bat but after that I started to feel comfortable." Cespedes snapped an 0-for-13 funk with a two-run double in the third inning, added an RBI single in the fifth and then doubled in Josh Donaldson as part of a five-run sixth. It was Cespedes first game with multiple RBIs since June 21. Eric Sogard added three hits and two RBIs, and Brandon Moss also drove in a pair for Oakland. The As (62-43) moved a season-high 19 games over .500 and extended their lead to six games over Texas in the AL West. "That was big," manager Bob Melvin said. "Weve had some guys struggling, and then someone else shows up ... and then someone else shows up. We still have some guys struggling, but we manage to either get just enough or keep adding on like today." Erick Aybar doubled and tripled for the Angels, who placed Albert Pujols on the disabled list before the game with a tear in his left foot that could end his season. The As took two of the first three games in this series primarily on the strength of their starting pitching. They got a big boost from their offence in the finale and a little help from the Angels defence along the way. Cespedes provided the biggest lift with his third three-hit game of the season. He went down looking in his first at-bat before his double in the third helped jump-start Oaklands comeback from a 5-0 deficit. He later hit a towering popup in the fifth that landed for an RBI single when Angels centre fielder Mike Trout lost it in the sun. The ball fell between Trout and right fielder Kole Calhoun as Moss scored from first with the tying run. "You cant catch what you cant see," Trout said. "I had a good (read) on it but the last three or four steps it just went away. I couldnt do anything about it." Trout had more fielding problems in the sixth after the Angels went up 6-5 on Aybars double. Stephen Vogt hit a sinking fly to centre that bounced in front of Trout just as he nearly collided with Josh Hamilton racing over from left field. The ball landed in front of the two outfielders and rolled to the warning track as both players fell to the turf. Seth Smith scored on the play to tie it 6-all. Sogard followed with a single off reliever J.C. Gutierrez (0-2) to drive in Vogt with the go-ahead run, then scored on Jed Lowries RBI double to give the As an 8-6 lead. Moss and Cespedes also had RBIs in the inning. "This team knows better than anybody that we have a great shot of making a run and coming back there," said Sogard, who extended his career-high hitting streak to seven games. "Sure enough we made it happen. Pitching wasnt there in the beginning and the bats picked it up, but pitching was there later and shut them down." Jesse Chavez (2-2) worked two innings for the win. The Angels lost for the seventh time in nine road games and fell a season-high 13 games out of first place. Before the game, manager Mike Scioscia announced that Pujols had been placed on the 15-day disabled list with a partially torn plantar fascia, an injury that has bothered him most of the season. He aggravated it while running out a single in the ninth inning of Fridays 6-4 loss to Oakland. "This is something that, talking to Albert, has been going on for six or seven years," Scioscia said. "Its been going on for a long time and hes managed it. This is a big blow to our team right now." Although surgery seems unlikely, Scioscia did not rule out Pujols being sidelined the remainder of the season. The news didnt get any better on the field. Tommy Hanson was staked to a five-run lead after two innings but struggled with his command and was gone in the fifth. Hanson struck out five and allowed four hits but walked five -- three of which scored. Oakland starter Jarrod Parker wasnt much better. He walked a career-high seven, but the As got him off the hook. The Angels jumped on Parker early when they scored four times and sent 10 batters to the plate in the first inning. Howie Kendrick and Mark Trumbo both drove in runs, and Alberto Callaspo added a two-run single. After Aybar tripled leading off the second, Kendrick hit into a fielders choice to make it 5-0. 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LAUSANNE, Switzerland -- After months of barbs and sparring between Olympic and anti-doping officials, World Anti-Doping Agency president Craig Reedie expects an end to public conflict.The rift has widened since July, when a WADA-commissioned report detailed a state-backed doping program in Russia for the 2014 Sochi Olympics and across summer and winter sports.The International Olympic Committees leadership rejected WADAs call to ban all Russian teams from the Rio de Janeiro Games, and the agency has since seemed to have fewer allies in world sports.Reedie told The Associated Press on Wednesday he sensed a truce after two days of WADA-hosted meetings with Olympic officials that worked beyond my expectations.Any public criticism that there has been, certainly from our side and I am sure now from the Olympic movement side, will stop, said the WADA president, who was also an IOC executive board member in the tense lead-in to Rio.WADAs role in anti-doping will be debated at an Olympic summit in Lausanne on Oct. 8, and IOC President Thomas Bach has called upon his members to bring fresh ideas.Still, asked if WADA was under threat, Reedie says: I would be very surprised. Why would it be?We have been under pressure and strain because of cheating in the biggest country in the world, Reedie said. It shook the IOC, it shook the (international sports federations), it shook us. We move on.The Russian evidence in Canadian lawyer Richard McLarens investigation will bbe revisited, likely within weeks, when his final report is published.ddddddddddddLate October is once more the target for publication, despite McLaren saying last week it was several months away as he analyzes evidence of corruption at the Sochi Olympics and in Russian winter sports and soccer.WADA director general Olivier Niggli told The AP on Wednesday that he spoke with McLaren over the weekend and confirmed the original deadline.It might be early November. This is not prolonging by several months, Niggli said.That timetable would allow WADA to digest the reports impact before Nov. 19-20 meetings of its foundation board and executive committee in Glasgow, Scotland.Reedie chaired a meeting of the WADA executive Wednesday that included two IOC board members -- Ugur Erdener of Turkey and Gian Franco Kasper of Switzerland -- plus the Olympic bodys medical director, Richard Budgett.Erdener and Budgett declined to comment to The AP after the meeting.While WADA has seemed under attack by the Olympic family, it has been the victim of a cyberattack on its database of athletes private medical records. WADA has said hackers linked to Russia are responsible for the leaks of dozens of athletes data which began last week.Niggli said the Montreal-based agency is working with the FBI and RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) on the case. ' ' '