plural sac flies
baseball, informal
: sacrifice fly
The Cardinals ended the scoring on Lonnie Smith's bases-loaded sac fly in the eighth.Jim Kaplan

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And though the Yankees briefly led again on a Giancarlo Stanton sacrifice fly in the sixth, the turnaround came complete in the eighth, when the Dodgers loaded the bases against Yankees reliever Tommy Kahnle, then got sac flies from Lux and Betts off closer Luke Weaver. Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2024 The Dodgers’ best performer of the entire postseason, meanwhile, was outfielder Mookie Betts, who was one of 12 players to have a hand in the 2024 and 2020 triumphs, and drove in the go-ahead run Wednesday with the second of the eighth-inning sac flies. Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2024 After Smith’s sac fly, Giancarlo Stanton gave the Yankees the lead in the next half inning, smacking a towering two-run home run to left field. Rohan Nadkarni, NBC News, 26 Oct. 2024 Dodgers second baseman Gavin Lux hit back with a sac fly in the bottom of the second, but the Padres’ lead was opened up again by Jackson Merrill, first with an RBI single in the sixth and later with a two-run home run in the eighth. Jacob Lev, CNN, 7 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for sac fly 

Word History

Etymology

sac short for sacrifice entry 1

First Known Use

1928, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of sac fly was in 1928

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“Sac fly.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sac%20fly. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.

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