NEW YORK: Philadelphia had not taken the field since July 26. Jake Arrieta had not been on a mound for a game that mattered since last August 11.

And the big return came against no less than the surging New York Yankees and Gerrit Cole, baseball’s hottest pitcher, who was making his debut in pinstripes.

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