Last Night In Baseball: Cristopher Sánchez Just Had One Of The Best Months Ever

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Phillies’ ace Cristopher Sánchez made five starts in the month of May, and he didn’t allow a single run in any of them. Those five starts all went at least seven innings, with two of them coming in at seven, another two at eight and one a complete-game shutout. He struck out 36 batters in his 32 innings while walking just three, and scattering 19 hits. He had an impressive 2.90 ERA at the end of April; it dropped to a league-leading 1.42 after seven shutout innings against the Padres on Wednesday in a Phillies’ win that clinched a sweep over San Diego.

That’s all impressive enough on its own, but consider, too, that Sánchez’s scoreless streak is now 44 ⅔ innings, breaking the longstanding Phillies’ record set in 1911 by Hall of Fame hurler Grover Alexander. You can do the math of how long ago 1911 was and be suitably impressed, but consider that the oldest stadium in use in MLB, the Red Sox’ Fenway Park, wasn’t opened until 1912. Robin Roberts, Steve Carlton, Curt Schilling, Roy Halladay, Cliff Lee, Cole Hamels, Zach Wheeler, none of them were able to break Alexander’s century-spanning mark. But Cristopher Sánchez did.

It goes beyond "just" toppling Alexander’s mark, as well. Per MLB’s Sarah Langs, Sánchez is the second-ever pitcher to get through an entire month with at least five starts made without allowing a run, joining Orel Hershisher’s 1988. Sánchez also now has the seventh-longest streak of the live-ball era — Hershisher is first, at 59 innings — and he’ll