PHILADELPHIA — Phillies ace Cristopher Sanchez extended his consecutive shutout innings streak to 50 2/3 innings before allowing a two-out RBI single to San Diego’s Jackson Merrill in the seventh Wednesday night.

The Phillies won the game, 3-2.

Sanchez’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. Sanchez 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 Sanchez since the end of April.

He entered the game with a 6-2 record and an MLB-low 1.47 ERA. He had thrown at least seven shutout innings in five straight starts.