SAN DIEGO \u2014 Cristopher S\u00e1nchez had toppled a Hall of Famer and broken a franchise record that had stood for 115 years, but there were no big celebrations.<\/p>\n
Not right away, anyway. Bryce Harper made sure to secure the ball S\u00e1nchez had used to extend his scoreless streak to 41 2\/3 innings, passing Grover Cleveland Alexander for the longest in franchise history. But S\u00e1nchez couldn\u2019t bask in it; he had only just completed the fourth inning against the Padres and still had an outing to finish.<\/p>\n
So after he walked off the field, history officially made, S\u00e1nchez disappeared into the tunnel to conduct his usual mid-inning routine.<\/p>\n
Later, when he struck out Ty France to complete seven shutout innings in the Phillies\u2019 3-0 win over San Diego, the high fives and congratulations could begin. S\u00e1nchez had extended his own record to 44 2\/3 scoreless innings. He hasn\u2019t allowed a run since April 30, and has thrown at least seven scoreless innings in each of his last five starts \u2014 also a franchise record.<\/p>\n
Alexander\u2019s team record of 41 scoreless innings had stood since 1911.<\/p>\n
It wasn\u2019t smooth sailing the entire time for S\u00e1nchez on Wednesday, but as he\u2019s done consistently throughout the streak, he managed to work his way out of trouble. He fell behind in counts often, throwing first-pitch strikes only 48% of the time, but still did not issue a walk.<\/p>\n
S\u00e1nchez struck out nine, with five coming on his change-up.<\/p>\n
The Padres threatened the streak several times. They advanced a runner to second base in the first inning and third base in the second, but each time S\u00e1nchez rebounded to strand him there.<\/p>\n
He walked out for the fourth inning with a chance to break the record, and Manny Machado came a few feet from ending it with one swing. He crushed a change-up to left field that just stayed in the ballpark for Edmundo Sosa to make the catch at the wall. S\u00e1nchez and Machado grinned at each other as Machado walked off.<\/p>\n
Ram\u00f3n Laureano jeopardized the streak again with a two-out double to left field, but Jackson Merrill grounded out to second base to put S\u00e1nchez\u2019s name atop the record books.<\/p>\n
S\u00e1nchez and Machado shared another smile in the sixth inning, after Justin Crawford made a spectacular jumping catch on the warning track to rob the Padres designated hitter of extra bases. Crawford made a long run to snag the ball, which had a .730 expected batting average, and hung onto it while crashing face-first into the center field wall.<\/p>\n
The Phillies\u2019 offense gave S\u00e1nchez a 2-0 lead in the sixth inning. Crawford singled off Padres starter Walker Buehler for his first hit since May 18. Edmundo Sosa was hit by a pitch, ending Buehler\u2019s day at just 58 pitches as Padres manager Craig Stammen brought in lefty Adrian Morejon for Kyle Schwarber.<\/p>\n
It didn\u2019t pay off, as Schwarber punched a single to right field that easily scored Crawford from second. Turner hit an RBI groundout in the next at-bat that drove in Sosa, as well.<\/p>\n
Turner homered in the ninth for an insurance run. He has homered in two straight games since interim manager Don Mattingly dropped him to the No. 2 spot in the batting order and put Schwarber in leadoff.<\/p>\n
Jonathan Bowlan and Jos\u00e9 Alvarado pitched a scoreless eighth and ninth inning, respectively, to secure the shutout and complete the sweep over San Diego.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN DIEGO \u2014 Cristopher S\u00e1nchez had toppled a Hall of Famer and broken a franchise record that had…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":711573,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2288],"tags":[7239,5,2323,2314,2317,2313,2331,2335,81,19,2310,2328,2304,2318,2308,2319,4,2305,2303,1039],"class_list":["post-711572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb-postseason","tag-2022-philadelphia-phillies-season","tag-baseball","tag-baseball-events","tag-baseball-finals","tag-baseball-games","tag-baseball-playoffs-and-champions","tag-batting-order-baseball","tag-home-run","tag-kyle-schwarber","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-major-league-baseball-competitions","tag-major-league-baseball-playoffs","tag-major-league-baseball-postseason","tag-major-league-baseball-seasons","tag-major-league-baseball-teams","tag-major-league-baseball-teams-seasons","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-playoffs","tag-mlb-postseason","tag-world-series"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=711572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/711573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=711572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=711572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=711572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}