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MANCHESTER, England -- The established order is fighting back in these early days of the English Premier League season -- and there are some familiar names atop the scoring charts, too. Cole Hamels Jersey .Manchester City and Chelsea both won Saturday to join Manchester United in achieving back-to-back victories at the start of the new campaign.Sergio Aguero scored two first-half goals -- one from the penalty spot -- to set City on its way to a 4-1 win at Stoke, continuing the teams impressive start to life under new coach Pep Guardiola.Like Guardiola, Chelsea coach Antonio Conte also is in his first season in English football and has begun with consecutive 2-1 wins, the latest coming at Watford. Diego Costa scored an 87th-minute winner at Vicarage Road, five days after an 89th-minute clincher against West Ham.City, United and Chelsea all failed to finish in the top three last season, capping an unpredictable campaign that saw 5,000-1 shot Leicester win the league in an upset for the ages. The chastened trio has spent a combined $500 million in the offseason to avoid a repeat and early results suggest it is unlikely to happen.As for Leicester, the champions are still searching for the first win of their title defense after a 0-0 draw at home to Arsenal, in a game between the top two teams from last season. Both sides are on one point.The only other team on maximum points from the opening two games is Hull, which comes as something of a surprise.The northeast club has started the season with only 13 fit senior players, no permanent manager, no new signings and with owners looking to sell up. But Hull followed up the win over Leicester by beating Swansea 2-0 away on Saturday, through late goals by Shaun Maloney and Abel Hernandez.Hull plays Man United next weekend.Also Saturday, Liverpool lost 2-0 at promoted Burnley, puncturing the optimism generated from its win at Arsenal on the opening weekend. Everton came from behind to win 2-1 at West Bromwich Albion, and Tottenham beat Crystal Palace 1-0 thanks to a first goal for the club by new midfield signing Victor Wanyama.Aguero has three league goals already this season, along with Man Uniteds Zlatan Ibrahimovic, while Costa has also scored in his first two games. That trio is likely to be competing for the Golden Boot come the end of the season.On Sunday, Sunderland plays Middlesbrough and West Ham hosts Bournemouth.United has eased to its two wins under new coach Jose Mourinho, and City followed suit with only its second win at Stoke in nine attempts in the Premier League.Theres plenty of change at City this season but one constant remains -- Aguero as a regular supply of goals. Counting the three he scored against Steaua Bucharest in a Champions League playoff match on Tuesday, the Argentina striker has six goals in three games so far.He failed to score off two penalties against Steaua but stayed on spot-kick duty against Stoke and slotted away his effort in the 27th after Ryan Shawcross was punished for pulling back Nicolas Otamendi. Agueros second was a header from Kevin De Bruynes free kick.Bojan Krkic also scored a penalty for Stoke, but Nolito made the game safe for City with tap-ins in the final minutes after coming on as a substitute.Chelseas win was harder to come by at Vicarage Road.Watford looked on course for its first Premier League victory over Chelsea since 1999 when Etienne Capoue smashed a left-footed shot into the top corner in the 55th.Watford goalkeeper Heurelho Gomes was partially at fault for Chelseas equalizer in the 80th, failing to hold Eden Hazards long-range shot and allowing Belgium striker Michy Batshuayi -- one of Chelseas two offseason signings -- to score from the rebound.Costa then ran onto a brilliant through-ball from Cesc Fabregas and shot past Gomes. Martin Perez Jersey . Deulofeu injured a muscle in his right leg in Evertons 4-1 win over Fulham in the English Premier League on Saturday. 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PHILADELPHIA -- New York Mets right-hander Jacob deGrom established himself as a rising star last season.Philadelphia Phillies rookie righty Zach Eflin is just beginning to establish himself, period.The two pitchers square off Sunday afternoon, when the Mets and Phillies play the rubber game of their three-game series in Citizens Bank Park.DeGrom (5-4, 2.61) has recently begun to show the dominating form he displayed last year, when he went 14-8 with a 2.54 ERA during the regular season and 3-1 with a 2.88 ERA in four postseason starts for the National League champions.He has gone 2-0 with a 1.35 ERA and 20 strikeouts (compared to four walks) in 20 innings over his last three starts, and his last time out he worked seven innings in a 4-2 victory over Miami. He allowed two runs on six hits while striking out seven and walking two.He escaped a bases-loaded jam in the first inning unscathed, and thereafter only allowed solo homers to Giancarlo Stanton in the fourth and sixth innings.(I feel) better than where I started, deGrom said afterward, according to Major League Baseballs official web site. Things are starting to come back, and I was pretty happy about today.He is 3-0 with a 3.03 ERA in six career starts against the Phillies, and the Mets have won all six of those outings.Eflin (2-2, 4.08) was hit hard by Toronto in his first major league start, on June 14, allowing nine runs (eight earned) on nine hits in 2 2/3 innings, but since then he has gone 2-1 with a 2.20 ERA. He earned his first major league victory on July 5, going the distance to beat Atlanta 5-1, then followed that up with a 10-3 victory in Colorado five days later.Over his last two starts, he has gone 15 innings and yielded three runs on 13 hits while striking out nine and walking two.You just cant live in the past, Eflin said of his bouncebaack, according to MLB. Russell Wilson Jersey. com. Youve just always got to have your head high. I learn after every outing and I learned a lot after that one (against the Rockies). Ive done a good job of just keeping the ball down and throwing all of the pitches for strikes and keeping the hitters guessing.The Mets won the series opener 5-3, but the Phillies answered with a 4-2 victory Saturday night, as Maikel Franco drove in the go-ahead run with a seventh-inning single.Franco is hitting .370 over his last 18 games, raising his average from .235 to .265, and has 17 RBI in his last 15. His 18 homers and 54 RBI lead the team and are third among major league third basemen, and on Saturday he blooped the first pitch he saw from Mets reliever Hansel Robles -- a 97 mph fastball -- into left field to snap a 2-2 tie.I know it was a good situation for me, Franco said. I just want to put the ball in play. Something good happened, and Im glad something good happened for me, and for my team, too.Franco had shown considerable promise in his first extended big league trial in 2015, hitting .280 with 14 homers and 50 RBI in 80 games, but found himself in the throes of a frustrating slump earlier this season.That is now behind him.He looks like hes staying on the ball better, manager Pete Mackanin said. Hes fouling off some tough pitches to right field. Hes just not flying off the ball like he has been, and hes getting results.Mackanin added that Franco is real close to resembling the player he was a year ago.Hes going to have a good year, Mackanin said. 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