Gerrit Cole returns to one of his favorite ballparks -- for more than one reason -- when the New York Yankees kick off the Oakland Athletics' going-away homestand with a three-game series that begins Friday night.

Major League Baseball has scheduled the Yankees and defending World Series champion Texas Rangers as the final two teams to occupy the visitors' dugout at the Oakland Coliseum before the A's (67-86) pack their bases and move to Sacramento next season.

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