sacrifice hit

The only Dodger position player with a sacrifice hit is Chris Taylor, who has two.

And the sickening magnitude of my mom’s sacrifice hit me.

But Ellsbury bunted the runners up, earning the first sacrifice hit in his two seasons with the Yankees.

Sacrifi′cially.—Sacrifice hit, in base-ball, a hit to enable another player to score or to gain a base.—Eucharistic sacrifice, the supposed constant renewal of the sacrifice of Christ in the mass.

Or, if the attempt is to be made to cut off at the plate a runner trying to score on a sacrifice hit, he will play on the base-line or a few feet inside the diamond.