sacrifice fly

noun

: an outfield fly in baseball caught by a fielder after which a runner scores

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Meanwhile the Yankees took a 6-5 lead when Juan Soto led off the sixth inning with a walk and came around to score on a Stanton sacrifice fly. —

Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2024 New York retook the lead in the sixth inning, but two sacrifice flies by Los Angeles in the top of the eighth inning put the Dodgers in the lead for good. —

Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 31 Oct. 2024 Advertisement After falling behind again in the sixth inning, the Dodgers found yet another answer, manufacturing two eighth-inning runs off of two sacrifice flies to take a lead before a stunned Yankee Stadium crowd. —

Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2024 In the third, Ortiz smacked a solo homer, followed by Linville’s sacrifice fly to make it 3-0. —

Kyle Newman, The Denver Post, 26 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for sacrifice fly