plural sac flies
baseball, informal
: sacrifice fly
The Cardinals ended the scoring on Lonnie Smith's bases-loaded sac fly in the eighth.Jim Kaplan

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Gavin Lux, though, tied the game with a sac fly, and then Shohei Ohtani reached base on a catcher’s interference to load the bases again. Ryan Morik, Fox News, 31 Oct. 2024 Though Margot singled in the fifth to load the bases, the Twins got only a run on Lewis’ sac fly. Dan Hayes, The Athletic, 20 Aug. 2024 The next batter, Mookie Betts, hit a sac fly, giving the Dodgers a 7-6 lead. Ryan Morik, Fox News, 31 Oct. 2024 Previously in the fifth, Cortes let the Red Sox retake the lead on a Masataka Yoshida sac fly. Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 27 July 2024 See All Example Sentences for sac fly

Word History

Etymology

sac short for sacrifice entry 1

First Known Use

1928, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of sac fly was in 1928

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“Sac fly.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sac%20fly. Accessed 28 Feb. 2025.

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