How to Use suicide squeeze in a Sentence

suicide squeeze

noun
  • In the bottom of the ninth the Cardinals' loaded the bases and tried a suicide squeeze with one out.
    Hank Brady, NOLA.com, 23 Apr. 2018
  • In the second, Pullins laid down a suicide squeeze that scored Vendl for the Vikings’ second run.
    Mike Hutton, Post-Tribune, 12 Apr. 2018
  • The first time Snow saw runners from second and third score on a suicide squeeze?
    Mike Digiovanna, latimes.com, 18 May 2018
  • Both wound up scoring, one on a pretty suicide squeeze bunt with the bases jammed and the other on a wild pitch.
    Robert Avery, Houston Chronicle, 1 July 2018
  • The only run the Comets scored came on a suicide squeeze bunt, which was Hambor’s trademark gadget play.
    Craig Clary, baltimoresun.com, 6 June 2018
  • After a sacrifice bunt moved Marusak to third, DeBarge tried to end it with a suicide squeeze.
    Creg Stephenson | Cstephenson@al.com, al, 25 Mar. 2022
  • Louisville tried to re-take the lead in the bottom of the ninth with a suicide squeeze, but Levi Usher couldn’t get the bunt down and Cooper Bowman was tagged out on his way home.
    Hayes Gardner, The Courier-Journal, 28 May 2021
  • Shell failed to get down a suicide squeeze, with Santi Montiel easily tagged out at the plate for the second out.
    Creg Stephenson | Cstephenson@al.com, al, 29 Feb. 2020
  • Anderson foiled that strategy by dropping down a perfect suicide squeeze bunt to score Braun with the first run of the game.
    Tom Haudricourt, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 June 2019
  • Six runs later, following the successful suicide squeeze, Covey was pulled with two outs in the frame.
    Bobby Nightengale, Cincinnati.com, 4 July 2018
  • Pinch-hitter Jordan Guevara executed a suicide squeeze play with the bases loaded in the top of the seventh, and Poly scored two runs on it.
    David Carrillo Peñaloza, latimes.com, 17 May 2018
  • Highlands tried a suicide squeeze and Schwalbach missed the bunt, allowing Gulley to be tagged out at home, then Schwalbach flied to center to end the inning.
    James Weber, Cincinnati.com, 16 June 2018
  • In the bottom of the inning, Alfonse Dello Russo laid down a suicide squeeze tacking on another run for Glenelg.
    Jacob Steinberg, Baltimore Sun, 14 May 2022
  • In the top of the ninth, Evan Wendell perfectly executed a suicide squeeze, scoring first baseman Steve Luttazi from the third.
    Matt Doherty, BostonGlobe.com, 19 June 2018
  • Riggleman has been aggressive with a few suicide squeeze plays.
    Bobby Nightengale, Cincinnati.com, 12 July 2018
  • Blandino perfectly executed the suicide squeeze on the next pitch.
    John Fay, Cincinnati.com, 13 May 2018
  • North Attleborough had a chance for a walkoff victory, putting a runner on third with one out in the bottom of the seventh, but a suicide squeeze went wrong and allowed Noviello to get out of the jam, sending the game into extra innings.
    Karl Capen, BostonGlobe.com, 28 May 2018
  • Tauchman scored on pitcher Tyler Anderson’s suicide squeeze.
    John Fay, Cincinnati.com, 7 June 2018
  • Miley committed two-run miscue, flipping Yolmer Sanchez's suicide squeeze bunt over the head of catcher Robinson Chirinos, a perfect illustration of such a putrid day on the pitcher's mound.
    Chandler Rome, Houston Chronicle, 14 Aug. 2019
  • Altamirano bunted both runners over, then Orbeta executed the Jaguars’ patented double suicide squeeze.
    Creg Stephenson | Cstephenson@al.com, al, 8 Apr. 2022

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