Sacrifice fly
In baseball, a ball intentionally hit for a fly out, with the goal of advancing base runners / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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In baseball, a sacrifice fly (sometimes abbreviated to sac fly) is defined by Rule 9.08(d):[1] "Score a sacrifice fly when, before two are out, the batter hits a ball in flight handled by an outfielder or an infielder running in the outfield in fair or foul territory that
- is caught, and a run scores after the catch, or
- is dropped, and a runner scores, if in the scorer's judgment the runner could have scored after the catch had the fly ball been caught."
They are so named because the batter allows a teammate to score a run, while "sacrificing" his or her ability to do so. They are traditionally recorded in box scores with the designation "SF".