No Helena Senators player before him had carried an ERA this low this deep into the regular-season.

Ryder Murdock, the Billings Royals' lead-off base runner in the seventh inning of a 5-2 contest, threatened that, but Lyng, as he did regularly throughout a record-breaking campaign, simply responded with strikes.

Bumping into legion baseball's 105-pitch limit, the right-hander induced a roller to back-up third baseman Keaton Troyer (playing due to Tycen Mooney's first-inning ejection), who sparked a 5-4-3 outing-ending double play, clearing the bases and securing Lyng's spot in the record books.

“I was thinking about it after the game,” Troyer said. “It’s awesome. I never thought I’d get to do that, never thought I’d play third base for him…

“Everything about it was amazing. It was a cool moment.”

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