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WASHINGTON -- If the Pittsburgh Pirates are going to make a run to the postseason, they will need a strong second-half performance from Gerrit Cole.The right-hander is expected to come off the disabled list and start for the Pirates Saturday night against the Washington Nationals.Im excited to be able to play again and hopefully put ourselves in a position to win a ballgame, Cole said on the eve of his return.Im just excited to be back, compete, and just play.Cole has been on the disabled list for more than a month with a strained right triceps. He is 5-4 with a 2.77 ERA this year, but has gone seven innings only twice in 12 starts.The 25-year-old was a first-round pick by the Pirates in the 2011 draft out of UCLA, where he pitched for three years. He lives in Santa Ana, Calif., the hometown of Washington shortstop Danny Espinosa.Cole will make his first big league start since June 10 after he threw eight scoreless innings in two rehab starts with Triple-A Indianapolis, with the most recent coming last Sunday.He is 2-0 with a 1.74 ERA in three career starts against Washington.Ben Revere has hit Cole at an impressive clip throughout his career, going 7-for-12 (.582) with an RBI.Wilson Ramos (2-for-8) and Michael Taylor (1-for-4) are the only Nationals players who have taken Cole deep, and Daniel Murphy is 2-for-9 with two RBI.Murphy is dealing with left hamstring tightness and was a late scratch from the Nationals lineup Friday. Hes listed as day-to-day.Cole will be opposed by Nationals right-hander Tanner Roark. It will be the first career start for Roark against the Pirates, whom he has faced twice out of the bullpen.No active Pirates player has more than one career hit against Roark, but Andrew McCutchen (1-for-2) and Staling Marte (1-for-5) have each slugged two-run home runs off of him.John Jaso (1-for-3) also has a round-tripper against Roark.Roark is 8-5 with a 3.01 ERA this season. Max Scherzer will start Sunday after Stephen Strasburg started the opener on Friday and allowed one run over eight innings in a 5-1 win.Scherzer threw one inning in the All-Star game on Tuesday.What went into the thinking of the Nationals for their weekend rotation?Strasburg was the strongest. Scherzer was the least rested, so we decided to give him some extra days. We had to keep Tanner kind of rested, Washington manager Dusty Baker said.Baker is a former Cincinnati Reds manager who knows the Pirates well.I was in a division with the Pirates for a long time, Baker said. 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Vapormax 2019 Femme Pas Cher .ca NHL Power Rankings for the second straight week, ahead of the Pittsburgh Penguins and Colorado Avalanche.Paris Saint-Germain have made an approach to Jose Mourinho to become their new manager this summer, according to Sky sources. PSG chairman Nasser Al-Khelaifi is understood to have instigated the approach to Mourinho - via his agent Jorge Mendes - immediately after PSGs Champions League exit at the hands of Manchester City last week, having grown frustrated at the clubs lack of progress in Europe under Laurent Blanc.Sky Sports News HQ understands Mourinhos preference is to wait until the end of the season and monitor any developments at Manchester United, although he does consider PSG a credible choice for his return to management and is considering his options. Mourinho is known to have a friendship with Al-Khelaifi, which pre-dates the Qataris ownership of PSG. Al-Khelaifi has tried to appoint the 53-year-old as manager twice before, and remains convinced the Portuguese is the man most likely to achieve the clubs ambition of winning the Champions League.Last week, Al-Khelaifi could not hide his disappointment after PSG were knocked out of the Champions League by City, and admitted Blanc took a tactical gamble by playing a three-man defence in the second leg, which they lost 1-0, eventually going out 3-2 on aggregate. Laurent Blanc signed a new two-year deal at PSG in February The manner of the defeat was branded a fiasco by sports newspaper LEquipe, and despite the fact Blanc signed a new two-year contract in February keeping keep him at the club until 2018, Al-Khelaifi now wants Mourinho to replace him this summer. PSGs approach to Mourinho will not go unnoticed among the Manchester United hierarchy, who will review Louis van Gaals position at the end of the season.dddddddddddd United currently sit four points off the top four in the Premier League with five games remaining, but could still win the FA Cup.Speaking exclusively to Sky Sports News HQ on April 9, Mourinho denied any agreement was in place for him to join Manchester United in the summer. I am always linked with jobs and in the summer I will have a job, but in this moment I can promise you I do not have a contract with any club, he said. PSG were knocked out of the Champions League by Manchester City last week Were United to sack Van Gaal this summer and replace him with Mourinho, it would also have an impact upon player recruitment at Old Trafford.Last week, Sky Sports News HQ revealed Zlatan Ibrahimovic would only be willing to join Manchester United if Van Gaal left the club. The Swede is available on a free transfer this summer but in his 2011 autobiography I Am Zlatan, he alluded to a strained relationship with Van Gaal during their time together at Ajax.Meanwhile, United are known admirers of John Stones, who Mourinho unsuccessfully tried to bring to Chelsea from Everton last summer. Everton rejected three bids from Chelsea for the defender, and refused to sell Stones. It is understood Mourinho would approve of signing both the 21-year-old and Ibrahimovic if he were to take over at Old Trafford. PSG have refused to comment. Also See: Fabregas: We let Jose down Mourinho turns down Syria Jose: No United deal agreed Utd not a job for Jose? ' ' '