tag up
verb
tagged up; tagging up; tags up
: to touch a base before running in baseball after a fly ball is caught
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With the Mets down 1-0, McNeil went back to second base to tag up on Taylor’s drive to the wall in left-center, only to scurry to third after Yankees left fielder Alex Verdugo did not catch it.
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Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 24 July 2024
The heart of the game has long been in its quiet moments—the thick air of expectation that hovers before a fly ball drops into an outfielder’s glove while a runner prepares to try to tag up or the way a pitcher looks at a hitter when the tying run is on third.
—Abe Streep, Scientific American, 16 July 2024
Chisholm, who left Saturday’s game early because of right biceps tightness, then aggressively tagged up on Josh Bell’s fly out to left field, again sliding headfirst, and trotted home from third on Jake Burger’s two-out single.
—Steve Gorten, Miami Herald, 23 June 2024
However, he was easily thrown out at home attempting to tag up on Tim Anderson’s 269-foot lineout to right fielder Dylan Carlson, who threw a bullet on a fly to catcher Pedro Pages.
—Harvey Fialkov, Miami Herald, 18 June 2024
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Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 24 July 2024
The heart of the game has long been in its quiet moments—the thick air of expectation that hovers before a fly ball drops into an outfielder’s glove while a runner prepares to try to tag up or the way a pitcher looks at a hitter when the tying run is on third.
—Abe Streep, Scientific American, 16 July 2024
Chisholm, who left Saturday’s game early because of right biceps tightness, then aggressively tagged up on Josh Bell’s fly out to left field, again sliding headfirst, and trotted home from third on Jake Burger’s two-out single.
—Steve Gorten, Miami Herald, 23 June 2024
However, he was easily thrown out at home attempting to tag up on Tim Anderson’s 269-foot lineout to right fielder Dylan Carlson, who threw a bullet on a fly to catcher Pedro Pages.
—Harvey Fialkov, Miami Herald, 18 June 2024
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“Tag up.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tag%20up. Accessed 8 Nov. 2024.
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