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As the playoff hopes of the Pittsburgh Pirates took a hit during the last two and a half weeks, all Gerrit Cole could do was watch.The Pirates ace will make his return from the 15-day disabled list (elbow) Monday when Pittsburgh opens a four-game series in Philadelphia. But the Pirates have almost eliminated themselves from the playoffs. Sundays loss in Cincinnati marked their third in a row and 11th in their last 13.Theyve fallen to 5 1/2 games behind St. Louis for the final wildcard spot in the National League playoff race. Theyre now 69-72 on the year. Pittsburgh was 63-61 when Cole last made a start.Cole, the teams ace, has had a disappointing and injury-plagued 2016. He has a 3.55 ERA in 20 starts. In his last four starts before hitting the DL with elbow inflammation, he gave up 34 hits and 17 earned runs in 21 2/3 innings, helping drop his record on the year to 7-9. This, after an impressive 2.60 ERA in 32 starts in 2015.Its the injuries that slowed him in 2016.It is awful, Cole said Thursday, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Especially in a season like this where you feel you can make an impact. But you deal with the cards you are dealt and try to make the best hand out of it.Now, hell likely have four more starts to right his season, as the Pirates fight to save their playoff hopes.Im a big believer that the greatest indicator of the present is the past, athletic trainer Todd Tomczyk told the Post-Gazette. But Im also stubborn and want to be a pioneer and move forward and try to do something different to prevent these injuries. So, sure, (Cole) is more prone to injuries with three in one season.However, were going to have an all-systems attack on how were going to address a lot of his kinetic-chain issues that may or may not have caused some of his ailments this year.In Philadelphia, Cole and the Pirates meet a Phillies team that freshly promoted two prospects, outfielder Roman Quinn and catcher Jorge Alfaro, and is finishing out another year of rebuilding. Quinn, a Top 10 prospect in the Phillies system, started in his MLB debut Sunday. He batted second and played center field.Quinn went 0-for-3 with a walk and a diving catch in his debut.The Phillies (63-80), losers of three straight after a 3-2 loss in Washington Sunday, are likely to call up more prospects as they play out the final strings of 2016. And theyll likely use a variety of pitchers down the stretch, as some pitchers are reaching their innings limits.Veteran righty Jeremy Hellickson (10-9, 3.90 ERA), whom the Phillies decided to hang onto at the trade deadline, meets Cole Monday night.Hellickson, 29, has been the veteran presence and innings eater the young Phillies pitching staff has relied on.I think having Jeremy here is very important to our club, general manager Matt Klentak said last month. There was a reason we brought him here in the first place. The reason we traded for him was to add some stability to our rotation, help to mentor our young pitchers, to help to protect them from the workloads, help to save the bullpen.Hell continue to do all of that as the final three weeks of the season play out. Cheap Jordan 12 Wholesale . -- Vincent Lecavalier got everything but the desired result in his return to Tampa Bay. 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"The conditions were tough and when I missed it cost me," he said after completing a 7-over 79 that had him plummeting down the scoreboard at Muirfield Village, where he has won a record five times. "I caught the wrong gusts at the wrong time, made a couple bad swings and all in all it just went the wrong way." His previous worst nine-hole score was a 43 on three occasions, most recently at Quail Hollow in 2010. He certainly wasnt alone. Playing partner Zach Johnson shot an 81. "It was hard," said Johnson, who declined to discuss Woods or his play. "It was very hard today. There was a lot of wind." The third member of the group, Jim Furyk, shot a 69 that was among the best scores of the day on a course that is difficult even when conditions are calm and quiet. Asked if it was stunning when a player as good as Woods shoots such a high score, Furyk said, "Yeah, it is. He didnt hit that many bad golf shots but he got away with none of them, if that makes sense." Woods had earlier rounds of 71 and 74 and now stands at 8-over 224 and near the bottom in the 73-player field. The 79 was his highest score by three shots at the Memorial, where he won 1999-2001, 2009 and 2012. The 79 was his worst round since shooting a 79 in the second round at Quail Hollow in 2010 and matches the second-worst score hes had as a pro. His only worst 18-hole score is a third-round 81 at the 2002 British Open at Muirfield. Things started getting away from him on his third hole, the signature 12th. His iron shot into the par-3 cleared a large lake but left him with a bad stance in the front bunker. He had to hit to tthe left side of the green -- away from the pin -- just to get out of the sand.dddddddddddd From there he three-putted for a double bogey. At the 15th, for the second day in a row Woods hit into the fairway but then nailed his second shot into the deep rough on a slope left of the green. He hit sideways to avoid a tree but came up short of the green, then chopped out of the thick stuff with the ball running downhill through the green into the first cut. Again he followed with a three-putt for a double-bogey. "We didnt hit that many bad shots starting out the day and the next thing you know we were quite a few over par," Woods said. "It was a rough day. It was tough out there from beginning to end." After failing to get up and down from just off the green to the left of the 17th hole, everything unraveled at the difficult par-4 18th. Woods drive was down the middle of the fairway, but his second shot was well short and rolled back to a collection area in front. He spun a sand wedge shot that landed short of the pin and then spun back, rolling toward him and ending up even farther away from the pin than he was after the previous shot. He finally chipped to 5 feet above the hole on the steeply-slanted green, then rolled his next putt down the hill and 7 feet past and missed the comebacker to settle for the triple-bogey. "The third shot was pretty incredible, to hit it that short and have it spin that much," Furyk said. "I was up on the green, I watched it go up, spin -- it was spinning like a top -- and then came back. It had a lot of juice on it. "He just kind of had things snowball on him and then the putter on the first side we played let him down and that added a bunch of shots as well." Woods birdied three of the first five holes on the front nine but had bogeys at No. 6 and 9 for his 79. "Its just one of those things where Im sure Im not the only one who struggled out there," he said. "I tried to fight back on the back nine but it just didnt quite materialize." ' ' '