sacrifice bunt
noun
variants
or less commonly sacrifice hit
plural sacrifice bunts also sacrifice hits
: a bunt in baseball that allows a runner to advance one base while the batter is put out
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Kiké Hernández advanced Pages and automatic runner Michael Conforto to second and third with a sacrifice bunt.
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Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 29 Apr. 2025
Johan Rojas misplayed a ball Sunday night that led to the only run Aaron Nola allowed, failed to execute a sacrifice bunt in the eighth inning, and then could not make a safety squeeze work in the 10th inning.
—Matt Gelb, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2025
Both runners moved up 90 feet on Brandon Lockridge’s sacrifice bunt, and Elias Díaz drove in both with a single.
Fernando Tatis Jr. followed with a single that moved Díaz to third base.
—Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Apr. 2025
Junior left fielder Owen Bone drove in a run for the Oilers with an expert sacrifice bunt.
—Steve Fryer, Oc Register, 25 Mar. 2025
Edmundo Sosa hit a leadoff single, took second on a passed ball by Goodman, advanced to third on John Rojas’ sacrifice bunt, and scored on Trea Turner’s single.
—Patrick Saunders, Denver Post, 2 Apr. 2025
Iglesias led off the fifth by getting his first hit with the Padres, Lockridge followed with a walk, and both runners moved over on a sacrifice bunt by Díaz.
—Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Apr. 2025
Fitzgerald reached base on an error by De La Cruz, then advanced to second on a sacrifice bunt by LaMonte Wade Jr.
—Justice Delos Santos, Mercury News, 30 Mar. 2025
When most baseball people had either forgotten the fundamentals of the sacrifice bunt or condemned it altogether, Amalfitano was teaching them to minor league teenagers.
—Gqlshare, Oc Register, 28 Mar. 2025
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Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 29 Apr. 2025
Johan Rojas misplayed a ball Sunday night that led to the only run Aaron Nola allowed, failed to execute a sacrifice bunt in the eighth inning, and then could not make a safety squeeze work in the 10th inning.
—Matt Gelb, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2025
Both runners moved up 90 feet on Brandon Lockridge’s sacrifice bunt, and Elias Díaz drove in both with a single.
Fernando Tatis Jr. followed with a single that moved Díaz to third base.
—Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Apr. 2025
Junior left fielder Owen Bone drove in a run for the Oilers with an expert sacrifice bunt.
—Steve Fryer, Oc Register, 25 Mar. 2025
Edmundo Sosa hit a leadoff single, took second on a passed ball by Goodman, advanced to third on John Rojas’ sacrifice bunt, and scored on Trea Turner’s single.
—Patrick Saunders, Denver Post, 2 Apr. 2025
Iglesias led off the fifth by getting his first hit with the Padres, Lockridge followed with a walk, and both runners moved over on a sacrifice bunt by Díaz.
—Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Apr. 2025
Fitzgerald reached base on an error by De La Cruz, then advanced to second on a sacrifice bunt by LaMonte Wade Jr.
—Justice Delos Santos, Mercury News, 30 Mar. 2025
When most baseball people had either forgotten the fundamentals of the sacrifice bunt or condemned it altogether, Amalfitano was teaching them to minor league teenagers.
—Gqlshare, Oc Register, 28 Mar. 2025
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