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

Examples of sacrifice bunt in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Xander Bogaerts drew a leadoff walk and advanced on a sacrifice bunt before Machado hit a two-out line drive that fell in left. — ABC News, 24 July 2026

With no outs and the Royals’ Josh Rojas on first in the bottom of the ninth, the Royals’ Tyler Tolbert laid down a sacrifice bunt that rolled right in front of home plate. — Justice Delos Santos, Mercury News, 21 July 2026

The Angels tied it at 1 in the second when Vaughn Grissom led off with a double, took third on Josh Lowe’s sacrifice bunt and scored on Peraza’s infield single. — Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2026

Yoshida began the top of the 10th as the automatic runner on second, but immediately motored to third on a first-pitch sacrifice bunt by Wong and scored the go-ahead run on a sacrifice fly by Seigler. — Gabrielle Starr, Hartford Courant, 12 July 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1877, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for sacrifice bunt

• affront
• confront
• exeunt
• forefront
• lakefront
• manhunt
• sederunt
• upfront
• battlefront
• oceanfront
• riverfront
• waterfront