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犠牲フライ (ぎせいフライ) Japanese meaning | Kotomora

犠ぎ牲せいフライ

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Meanings

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Baseball term: a fly ball that allows a runner to score after the catch, while the batter is out.

See also: 犠飛

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犠ぎ

牲せい

フライ

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。

He brought the team a run with a sacrifice fly.

9回かい裏うら、犠ぎ牲せいフライでサヨナラ勝がちした。

In the bottom of the ninth, they won on a walk-off sacrifice fly.

Kanji

犠sacrifice
牲animal sacrifice, offering

Related words

犠ぎ飛ひ
犠牲フライ is the full, formal term for a sacrifice fly, while 犠飛 is the shortened form commonly used in scorekeeping and commentary.
犠ぎ打だ
犠打 is the general baseball term covering any sacrifice hit, while 犠牲フライ refers specifically to a sacrifice fly.

Built from

犠ぎ牲せい+フライ

Etymology

Compound of 犠牲 (sacrifice) and フライ (fly, from English 'fly'). A baseball term calqued from English 'sacrifice fly'.