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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While Bellinger stole the show defensively, Judge also drove a deep sac fly to left in the seventh. Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 6 July 2025 Back-to-back wild pitches moved pinch runner Ainsworth to third before Marsella’s sac fly upped the lead to 4-0. Matt Roy, Boston Herald, 15 June 2025 Justin Thomas struck out in 3 pitches with a sac fly opportunity, bringing Davalan to the plate. Matt Jones, Arkansas Online, 16 May 2025 Cleveland got on the board early, driving in a run in the first inning, but a sac fly by Detroit in the next inning tied it up. Ryan Morik, Fox News, 11 Oct. 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 10 Jul. 2025.

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