tag up
verb
tagged up; tagging up; tags up
: to touch a base before running in baseball after a fly ball is caught
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So Chapman’s first impulse was to go back to second base to tag up.
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Andrew Baggarly, The Athletic, 18 Aug. 2024
Rice hit a flyball to the warning track, but Trent Grisham, in for Jones, didn’t tag up on the out.
—Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 23 July 2024
Birdsong hit Jeffers with a pitch and the catcher tagged up on Brooks Lee’s deep fly ball.
—Dan Hayes, The Athletic, 13 July 2024
Volpe was caught between tagging up and running as the ball was in the air before eventually settling at third.
—Rohan Nadkarni, NBC News, 30 Oct. 2024
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Andrew Baggarly, The Athletic, 18 Aug. 2024
Rice hit a flyball to the warning track, but Trent Grisham, in for Jones, didn’t tag up on the out.
—Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 23 July 2024
Birdsong hit Jeffers with a pitch and the catcher tagged up on Brooks Lee’s deep fly ball.
—Dan Hayes, The Athletic, 13 July 2024
Volpe was caught between tagging up and running as the ball was in the air before eventually settling at third.
—Rohan Nadkarni, NBC News, 30 Oct. 2024
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“Tag up.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tag%20up. Accessed 8 Feb. 2025.
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