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Philadelphia Phillies' Cristopher Sánchez reacts after pitching during the seventh inning of a baseball game against the San Diego Padres on Wednesday, June 3, 2026, in Philadelphia.

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Phillies ace Sánchez's scoreless streak ends at 50 2/3 innings, 3rd-longest in more than a century

Phillies ace Sánchez's scoreless streak ends at 50 2/3 innings, 3rd-longest in more than a century

Phillies ace Cristopher Sánchez extended his consecutive shutout innings streak to 50 2/3 before allowing a two-out RBI single to San Diego’s Jackson Merrill in the seventh Wednesday night. Sánchez’s streak is the third-best overall dating to the start of the Live Ball Era in 1920 behind the Los Angeles Dodgers’ Orel Hershiser's 59 scoreless innings in 1988, and Don Drysdale's 58 in 1968. He struck out San Diego’s Fernando Tatis Jr. and set the Padres down in order in the first to pass Carl Hubbell and become the career leader among left-handers. Sánchez breezed through six scoreless innings before allowing a two-out double in the seventh to Ty France, and Merrill followed with a hit that accounted for the only run allowed by Sánchez since the end of April.