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PITTSBURGH -- In his second start since coming off the disabled list, Gerrit Cole felt more like himself.It still wasnt enough to outpitch Zach Eflin.Eflin threw his first major-league shutout to overshadow Coles six strong innings, and the Philadelphia Phillies beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 4-0 Friday night.Cole allowed one run on six hits with seven strikeouts over six innings for Pittsburgh, which entered with the majors best record since June 24.Ive been working hard. Tonight was obviously a good step in the right direction, Cole said. Not the outcome that we wanted or necessarily the results that we wanted, but I had to make some pitches and got the ball on the ground. A good bounce-back start after Washington. That was frustrating.Cole (5-6) was tagged for five runs on seven hits in four innings against the Nationals on July 16, the rightys first start since June 10 because of a right triceps strain.He was much better Friday but was lifted for a pinch hitter after a sixth inning in which he escaped by allowing only one run following loading the bases with no outs.He did a very good job in the sixth inning to finish that off, manager Clint Hurdle said. One walk, seven strikeouts. First-pitch strikes were 18 out of 26. I thought he pitched well.But not as well as Eflin (3-3), who had six strikeouts, allowed three hits and did not walk a batter as he threw 100 pitches for his second complete game over his past four outings. In the majors for just 39 days, the 22-year-old is one of only seven pitchers to have multiple complete games this season.I was able to stay ahead and get quick outs, Eflin said. All four of my pitches were working today.Cameron Rupp had a home run and three RBI and Odubel Herrera had three hits and scored twice for the Phillies, who entered having lost four of five.John Jaso had two of the Pirates three hits, including their only one for extra bases (a leadoff double in the second).I thought the sixth inning was going to come back to haunt us when we didnt score, said Phillies manager Pete Mackanin, whose team had lost its past six at PNC Park dating to 2014.It was a good game for us; we havent won a lot of games here over the last few years so it was good to at least set the tone for this series.Jaso twice advanced to second base, but no baserunner reached third against Eflin, who has allowed 11 earned runs over his past seven outings since allowing nine in his major-league debut June 14 at Toronto.The closest the Pirates appeared to come to scoring was when Herrera made a leaping grab at the wall in center on a ball Jung Ho Kang hit in the fifth.Eflin faced 29 Pirates in collecting 27 outs.He kept the ball out of the middle, he changed locations, he changed velocity, kept it down, Hurdle said. It was a mix of everything.BEANBALLSThe clubs exchanged plunking the opponents No. 3 hitter with pitches in the first inning. Philadelphias Maikel Franco left the game during the fourth -- three innings after he was hit in the left wrist by a 96-mph fastball by Cole -- for what the team said were precautionary reasons. Eflin responded by hitting Andrew McCutchen in the bottom of the first, drawing a warning to both benches from home plate umpire Tony Randazzo. Two more Phillies, however, were hit by pitches over the remainder of the game.TRAINERS ROOMPirates: A day after being a late scratch from the lineup because of flu-like symptoms, OF Starling Marte was back in left field and batting cleanup Friday.UP NEXTPhillies: RHP Aaron Nola (5-8, 4.41) is coming off an outing in which he pitched six shutout innings Monday against Miami.Pirates: Hurdle confirmed after the game that the club intends on having RHP Tyler Glasnow make his second major league start Saturday. 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Now we all start at zero points again and its just a matter of winning races again.The previous skier from Switzerland to take the biggest prize in womens skiing was Vreni Schneider in 1995, successfully defending her title from the previous season.Gut downplayed the importance of the first race.My goal is to improve every day, I have to try to be as relaxed as possible, Gut said. There is always a lot of talk ahead of Soelden but this race is also worth just 100 points.She will be the only racer on Saturday who has won an overall title. Anna Veith, Tina Maze and Lindsey Vonn are all absent, for various reasons.Guts predecessor in 2014 and 2015, Veith, needs more time to recover from the knee injury that kept the Austrian away from the slopes last season.Known under her maiden name Fenninger until she got married in April, Veith returned on skis in June but has still been lacking muscle power for the World Cup.I felt that I dont have enough strength to put enough pressure on the skis, said Veith, adding she would spend next month mainly in the gym before returning to skiing in December.The 2013 champion also wont be a threat to Guts ambition as Tina Maze announced her retirement on Thursday. The Slovenian took a break from racing last season and said she will do only one last race -- on home soil in Maribor -- before quitting the sport.ddddddddddddSo, will Vonn again become Guts main challenger?The American, hunting her fifth overall title but first since 2012, was in a neck-and-neck race with Gut until damaging her left knee in a super-G crash in February, ending her season.Though fit and ready to race, Vonn declined the trip to the Austrian Alps as she planned to concentrate more on speed races and refrain from GS, like she also dropped the slalom from her schedule years ago.Ill be back on skis soon and training here at home, Vonn wrote on Facebook recently. Im disappointed I wont be there (in Soelden) but my goals for this season are focused more on downhill and super-g races.However, Gut might face fierce competition from Vonns American teammate, Mikaela Shiffrin, who agreed.Its the first season that I think its really possible, said Shiffrin, who has dominated slaloms in recent years and vastly improved in GS. Now she will add more speed events, not just super-G but even some downhills.We have to wait to get a good grasp where I stand, Shiffrin said. If I am skiing well in slalom and GS and have some good results in speed, it looks like I am a good contender.Calling it a huge dream, Shiffrin was quick to acknowledge many rivals have the same ambition.I want to keep everything in perspective, she said. There are a lot of girls that have that dream. There are probably 20 racers out there who have the potential to win the overall globe. 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