tag up

verb

tagged up; tagging up; tags up

intransitive verb

: to touch a base before running in baseball after a fly ball is caught

Examples of tag up in a Sentence

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Gurriel tagged up and scored on Moreno’s flyout to center field. Bill Plunkett, Oc Register, 31 Aug. 2025 Judge winced during a game Tuesday in Toronto after catching Alejandro Kirk’s seventh-inning fly in the right-field corner and throwing to second baseman Jazz Chisholm Jr. as Dante Bichette tagged up and went from second to third. Ronald Blum, Chicago Tribune, 26 July 2025 But on Gavin Sheets’ fly ball to right field, which easily moved Merrill to third, Bogaerts chose to tag up and ran into an out. Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 July 2025 In the top of the fourth, shortstop Xander Bogaerts tagged up on a fly ball and was thrown out for a double play. Dennis Lin, New York Times, 26 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for tag up

Word History

First Known Use

1942, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of tag up was in 1942

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“Tag up.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tag%20up. Accessed 8 Sep. 2025.

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tag up

verb
: to touch a base before running in baseball after a fly ball is caught
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