How to Use tag up in a Sentence

tag up

verb
  • Bichette was 30 feet down the line and couldn’t get back in time to tag up.
    Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Sep. 2023
  • The rookie failed to tag up on a deep fly ball and advance to third base.
    Terry Pluto, cleveland, 6 Apr. 2022
  • Instead, Cruz's fly ball allowed the rookie to tag up and score.
    Phil Miller, Star Tribune, 20 July 2021
  • Smith turned to a fastball in, which Castro popped up to shallow left, not deep enough for the tying run to tag up.
    Evan Grant, Dallas News, 24 May 2023
  • Roy’s fly ball to right field hit the wall halfway up, but was high enough that Lawson had to tag up at second just in case.
    James Weber, The Enquirer, 4 June 2022
  • Torkelson didn't tag up on Schoop's line-drive flyout to center field.
    Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 10 May 2023
  • Yoshida did tag up and tried to advance to third base on the play, but he was thrown out by first baseman Matt Olson for the third out of the inning.
    Cydney Henderson, USA TODAY, 26 July 2023
  • The ball traveled high in the sky and wasn't hit hard, giving Ryan McKenna plenty of time to prepare to throw home as Vierling tagged up.
    Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 23 Apr. 2023
  • Jones cut down Xander Bogaerts who was trying to tag up from third base on a fly ball by Kevin Plawecki with the bases loaded and one out in the third.
    Joe Noga, cleveland, 26 July 2022
  • Tommy Edman tried to tag up from second base on a sacrifice fly.
    The Enquirer, 17 Sep. 2022
  • Xavier made two great plays in right field and Luke made a ridiculous full extension play in left field and got up and threw out the runner trying to tag up for a double play.
    Emmett Hall, sun-sentinel.com, 22 July 2021
  • Alexus Worthy pitched the bottom of the seventh and closed out the game with a double play after a Lady Maverick failed to tag up on a fly ball to center field.
    Stephen Whitaker, San Antonio Express-News, 1 May 2023
  • Bellinger, running from second base, retreated to tag up.
    Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2021
  • Refsnyder tagged up and scored, putting the Red Sox ahead 3-1, despite a perfect throw from Carpenter.
    Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 9 Apr. 2023
  • Parker showed off his arm in the second inning, gunning out Harrison Bader, who had tagged up at second and was trying to get to third.
    Jeff Seidel, Detroit Free Press, 4 Mar. 2023
  • Heyward and Barnes alertly tagged up and advanced on the play, allowing Heyward to score on Freeman’s sacrifice fly to center for a 4-0 lead.
    Mike Digiovanna, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2024
  • But his audacious plan to tag up an entire 10-car subway train — widely acknowledged as one of the first to ever try it — would make his career as a hip-hop folk hero.
    August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2023
  • Claim your Google My Business profile, lock down social channels and domains, and publish and tag up-to-date, high-quality imagery.
    Lis Anderson, Forbes, 18 May 2022
  • In Arkansas, hunters can tag up to two bobcats per day during a season that runs from September 1 to February 29.
    Travis Hall, Field & Stream, 28 Dec. 2023
  • The sequence was so wham-bam that Marcell Ozuna scrambled back to tag up, left too soon and ended being called out on replay review, preventing the Braves from pushing their lead to 3-0.
    Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 17 Oct. 2020
  • Harris immediately threw to first base to double off Duvall, who was nearly to second base before turning back to tag up, for the second out of the inning.
    Cydney Henderson, USA TODAY, 26 July 2023
  • So everybody after that movie was going into the store and robbing and tagging up the staircases, and the character in that movie that definitely stood out was the New York City subways.
    Matt Thompson, Spin, 26 Sep. 2023
  • Grace Heath, a courtesy runner for Gonzales, set up Aledo’s scoring situation by tagging up from first and taking third base on a wild pitch.
    Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 May 2024
  • His outfield assist that ended the second inning when Devin Burkes tried tagging up on a fly ball set the tone for an Alabama crowd eager to break out of the program’s multi-generational slump.
    Michael Casagrande | McAsagrande@al.com, al, 24 May 2023
  • Anderson singled leading off the third, made a great decision to tag up and advance to second on a fly ball to center by Yoán Moncada and scored on a double by Brian Goodwin, tying the game at 1.
    Lamond Pope, chicagotribune.com, 10 July 2021
  • In the second inning, Tyler Stephenson attempted to tag up from second base when right fielder Ramon Laureano caught a ball in foul territory.
    Bobby Nightengale, The Enquirer, 29 Apr. 2023

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