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sacrifice fly

noun as in caught baseball but someone scores

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Against the Brewers, he gave up two walks, a ground-rule double and a run-scoring sacrifice fly in the span of two outs.

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That meant, instead of a sacrifice fly situation, a force play was on for the defense.

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Brandon Marsh added insult to injury with a sacrifice fly in the next at-bat.

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A fly ball two batters later — which worked for a sacrifice fly thanks to Hernández’s inability to cut the ball off — made it 3-0.

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The Dodgers kept the rally going after that, loading the bases for Call to hit a tying sacrifice fly.

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