Streak ends in the seventh
“My vocabulary is probably not good enough for him, but he’s just been amazing to watch,” manager Don Mattingly said after the Phillies posted a 3‑2 win Wednesday.
The zero‑run string finally snapped when Jackson Merrill sliced a two‑out RBI single to left field in the seventh, plating Ty France, who had doubled moments earlier. It marked the first run Sánchez had surrendered since the opening frame at San Francisco on April 30.
A two‑out single barely clearing the outfield grass — sometimes a zero hangs on until it doesn’t.
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Sánchez allowed four hits, one walk and struck out