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Andrew Heaney is the last man standing from a starting rotation the Los Angeles Angels hoped to rely on throughout 2018.Heaney will make his team-high 28th start of the season on Saturday night against the visiting Seattle Mariners in the third game of their four-game series at Angel Stadium.He�ll try to get the first win of the series for Los Angeles.Article continues below ...The Angels (73-75) fell 8-2 in the opener on Thursday night Josh Donaldson Jersey , preventing them from climbing over .500 for the first time in four weeks. Seattle (81-46) then shut them out 5-0 on Friday night.The Angels have scored two runs or fewer in five of their past six games.While injuries have decimated the Angels� starting pitching staff this season, Heaney seems to be getting strongerHeaney (9-9, 3.98 ERA) struck out a career-high 12 batters in his last outing, throwing seven scoreless innings in a 1-0 win against the Chicago White Sox on Sunday.�I think as we continue to see him get his stamina as this year�s progressed, he finished strong,� Angels manager Mike Scioscia told MLB.com after that game. �He might have had some more left in him.�Heaney�s only absence from the rotation was at the beginning of the season, when he missed two starts while recovering from left elbow inflammation.�He got a little setback at the end of spring training Joe Carter Jersey , but right now he�s the lone survivor of what we had thought our rotation was going to be,� Scioscia said. �He�s been very strong.�Heaney faced the Mariners twice in July and once in June.In the June outing, the left-hander followed the first complete game of his career with a 5-3 loss to the Mariners in which he retired only nine batters and none of the five he faced in the fourth inning. Heaney gave up five runs and seven hits, and that three-inning start was his shortest since September.He was much better in his next start against the Mariners on July 3, holding them to two earned runs over seven innings but again taking the loss in a 4-1 defeat.Later that month, he faced Seattle for the first time this season at Angel Stadium and allowed three runs over eight innings before the Angels won 4-3 on a walk-off home run by Kole Calhoun in the 10th inning.For his career, Heaney is 1-3 with a 3.78 ERA in six starts against Seattle.The Mariners will send right-hander Erasmo Ramirez to the mound Saturday.In his latest outing http://www.bluejaysfanproshop.com/authentic-j.a.-happ-jersey , Ramirez (2-3, 5.31) tossed five innings before getting a no-decision Sunday. He allowed two runs on six hits and two walks while striking out four in the 3-2 win over the New York Yankees.�He kept grinding through it,� Mariners manager Scott Servais told MLB.com after the win. �It wasn�t his sharpest outing, but he made pitches when he needed to to keep them off the board the best he could.�Ramirez has been terrific in his past two starts, giving up three runs in 10 1/3 innings while lowering his ERA from 6.28 to 5.31.He is 4-2 with a 2.25 ERA in six career starts against the Angels, but has not faced them this season. One might think that the St. Louis Cardinals are due for a fall after nine consecutive series wins.Don�t run that theory by first baseman and MVP candidate Matt Carpenter.�I don�t know why it shouldn�t last the rest of the year,� he said Sunday after a 12-3 win at Colorado capped a 5-1 road trip and made them 22-7 since July 27. �I don�t see why it couldn�t.�Article continues below ...Carpenter and St. Louis will get a chance to test that theory Tuesday night when they welcome the Pittsburgh Pirates for the opener of a three-game series in Busch Stadium.The Cardinals (72-58) own the National League�s first wild-card spot and sit four games behind the Chicago Cubs in the National League Central. They also have a home-heavy schedule in the season�s last five weeks Kendrys Morales Jersey , playing 19 of their final 31 games in front of friendly fans. They have just one road trip longer than three games for the year�s remainder.For a team that is 11-4 at home under interim manager Mike Shildt, the chance to spend most of the year�s remainder in familiar surroundings has to be an advantage. Then again, St. Louis fans were last heard turning Coors Field into Busch Stadium West in the last few innings on Sunday, even chanting �MVP� as Carpenter did a postgame interview on FS Midwest.�That was cool to hear the fans, especially as many as we had here today,� Carpenter said. �It was a neat experience.�Watching Jack Flaherty (7-6, 2.97 ERA) pitch has been a neat experience at times. The rookie right-hander Jesse Barfield Jersey , who takes the mound for the series opener, has received the endorsement of none other than Hall of Famer Bob Gibson, who probably likes how Flaherty works inside with purpose.Flaherty had everything going for him in his last start Wednesday night at the Los Angeles Dodgers, although he settled for a no-decision in a 3-1 Cardinals win. Flaherty took a no-hitter into the sixth inning for the third time this year before a Joc Pederson homer knee-capped that bid.In Flaherty�s last four starts, including a 2-1 win on Aug. 5 at Pittsburgh, he was allowed just 10 hits and two runs in 25 innings, walking nine and whiffing 33. He has faced the Pirates four times this year Brett Anderson Jersey , going 2-1 with a no-decision.Opposing him will be veteran right-hander Ivan Nova (7-8, 4.20), who has pitched well in his last three starts but is just 1-2 despite giving up no more than two runs in each game. Nova permitted only four hits and two runs in six innings Wednesday night against Atlanta at PNC Park but suffered a 6-1 defeat.The former New York Yankees pitcher�s last appearance against St. Louis resulted in an 8-4 loss on Aug. 4, when he gave up eight hits and four runs in four innings, walking three and fanning three.Pittsburgh (64-67) has lost seven of 10 to fall out of contention in the division and wild-card races.