sacrifice bunt

[sak-ruh-fahys buhnt]

noun

Baseball.

1. a sacrifice hit in which a bunted ball, hit when there are fewer than two outs, is fielded to put the batter out at first base but allows one or more base runners to safely advance to their next base.

Word History and Origins

Origin of sacrifice bunt¹

First recorded in 1910–15

Example Sentences

Entering Game 7 during that ninth-inning jam that Rojas and Pages helped him escape, Yamamoto retired the Jays in order in the 10th and then worked around a leadoff double in the 11th, fiedling a sacrifice bunt and then walking a batter before inducing a double play to seal the Dodgers’ repeat championship.

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They mainly hate it because over time, teams that sacrifice bunt score less than teams that don’t.

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Count me in as one of the geezers happy to see the sacrifice bunt make a comeback, that a few teams are finally defying the analytics and reviving the taboo tradition of moving a runner over, but Toronto skipper John Schneider’s decision to deploy a sacrifice bunt in the 11th to move Vlad Guerrero Jr. to third after Guerrero Jr.’s inning-opening double…that’s a tricky one.

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Vladimir Guerrero Jr. started the inning by pulling a 96.9-mph fastball for a double and advanced to third base on a sacrifice bunt by Isiah Kiner-Falefa.

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The Diamondbacks’ Jorge Barros tied it 4-4 with a sacrifice fly before Perdomo’s two-out heroics off Scott, who hit the leadoff batter, issued a walk and gave up a sacrifice bunt to set up Arizona’s comeback.

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