sac bunt

noun

ˈsak- 

plural sac bunts

baseball, informal : sacrifice bunt

Yates allowed a leadoff single to Kerry Robinson and walked Terrence Long. A sac bunt moved both runners up before Khalil Greene knocked an RBI single to right to tie the score.

—Mark Hale

Examples of sac bunt in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Royals lost about 4% of win probability with the sac bunt. — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 22 June 2026

After winning Friday’s game 8-7 in 10 innings, thanks to a two-base throwing error on a sac bunt, the Huskers run-ruled the Trojans on both Saturday (12-2) and Sunday (16-6). — Mitch Light, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2026

Chisholm followed that free pass with a questionable sac bunt for the first out of the inning. — Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 1 July 2025

After Cameron Benson struck out on a 3-2 fastball, Mateo Serna's sac bunt brought Peer home from third base to tie the game. — Matt Jones, Arkansas Online, 6 Apr. 2025

Then Kiké Hernández hit a sac bunt to move the runners to second and third, but Will Smith popped out on the next at bat. — Rohan Nadkarni, NBC News, 26 Oct. 2024

While in San Francisco, managing under NL rules, Bochy used his pitchers to bunt, but the Giants still had the fourth-fewest sac bunts among the 15 NL teams. — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 8 Aug. 2023

After Zack Short beat out a sac bunt off reliever Jonathan Hernández to load the bases, Jake Rogers hit a sacrifice fly and Marisnick followed with a single to give the Tigers a 3-1 lead. — Ryan Ford, Detroit Free Press, 31 May 2023

Word History

Etymology

sac short for sacrifice entry 1

First Known Use

1925, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for sac bunt

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