If the environment were a baseball game, carbon emissions would be runs. And in Friday night's 12-4 win over the Phillies, Tyler Lyons' carbon footprint would have been zero.
Lyons didn't have a bad day working his day job, allowing seven hits and three runs in five innings, striking out five and earning his second win of the season. The three runs came on Ryan Howard's home run in the fifth. But it was what he did on offense that made his day all the more impressive.
The pitcher entered Friday's game commanding a .