How to Use tag up in a Sentence

tag up

verb
  • Perez tagged up and sprinted home.
    — Kansas City Star, 3 May 2026
  • Bichette was 30 feet down the line and couldn’t get back in time to tag up.
    — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Sep. 2023
  • Cabrera tagged up once the ball was caught, and hustled home.
    — Ryan Canfield, FOXNews.com, 16 May 2025
  • The rookie failed to tag up on a deep fly ball and advance to third base.
    — Terry Pluto, cleveland, 6 Apr. 2022
  • So Chapman’s first impulse was to go back to second base to tag up.
    — Andrew Baggarly, The Athletic, 18 Aug. 2024
  • Black tagged up and beat Adrian Rodriguez's throw to the plate.
    — CBS News, 17 June 2026
  • Black tagged up and beat Adrian Rodriguez's throw to the plate.
    — ABC News, 16 June 2026
  • At third base, Hernandez had tagged up when Muncy hit the fly ball.
    — Bill Plunkett, Oc Register, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Instead, Cruz's fly ball allowed the rookie to tag up and score.
    — Phil Miller, Star Tribune, 20 July 2021
  • Gurriel tagged up and scored on Moreno’s flyout to center field.
    — Bill Plunkett, Oc Register, 31 Aug. 2025
  • Torkelson didn't tag up on Schoop's line-drive flyout to center field.
    — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 10 May 2023
  • Yastrzemski made the catch and fired home; Olson tagged up and burst for the plate.
    — Justice Delos Santos, Mercury News, 6 June 2025
  • Tommy Edman tried to tag up from second base on a sacrifice fly.
    — The Enquirer, 17 Sep. 2022
  • Roy’s fly ball to right field hit the wall halfway up, but was high enough that Lawson had to tag up at second just in case.
    — James Weber, The Enquirer, 4 June 2022
  • Smith turned to a fastball in, which Castro popped up to shallow left, not deep enough for the tying run to tag up.
    — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 24 May 2023
  • Birdsong hit Jeffers with a pitch and the catcher tagged up on Brooks Lee’s deep fly ball.
    — Dan Hayes, The Athletic, 13 July 2024
  • Siri drew a leadoff walk in the top of the sixth and stole second base, then tagged up on a fly ball to center field by Lindor.
    — Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 30 Mar. 2025
  • Rice hit a flyball to the warning track, but Trent Grisham, in for Jones, didn’t tag up on the out.
    — Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 23 July 2024
  • Volpe was caught between tagging up and running as the ball was in the air before eventually settling at third.
    — Rohan Nadkarni, NBC News, 30 Oct. 2024
  • Angels right fielder Jo Adell was camped under a fly ball, with a runner at third base getting ready to tag up.
    — Jeff Fletcher, Oc Register, 17 Aug. 2025
  • Dodgers baserunner Teoscar Hernandez thought the ball was caught on the fly, prompting him to attempt to tag up and score.
    — Kendall Capps, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Oct. 2025
  • In those days, players regularly scored from second base after tagging up at that ballpark.
    — Wayne Sterling, CNN, 18 June 2024
  • Romo tagged up on Miguel Vargas' fly out to Randy Arozarena, who overthrew home.
    — CBS News, 10 May 2026
  • Yoshida did tag up and tried to advance to third base on the play, but he was thrown out by first baseman Matt Olson for the third out of the inning.
    — Cydney Henderson, USA TODAY, 26 July 2023
  • Xavier made two great plays in right field and Luke made a ridiculous full extension play in left field and got up and threw out the runner trying to tag up for a double play.
    — Emmett Hall, sun-sentinel.com, 22 July 2021
  • Bellinger’s ball resulted in a sliding catch from Dylan Carlson in right, but Aaron Judge failed to tag up and score from third.
    — Gary Phillips, Hartford Courant, 22 June 2025
  • Carroll hit Hoffman’s first pitch into shallow right, Giles caught it, and Holliday tagged up from third.
    — Patrick Saunders, Denver Post, 17 Sep. 2016
  • Parker showed off his arm in the second inning, gunning out Harrison Bader, who had tagged up at second and was trying to get to third.
    — Jeff Seidel, Detroit Free Press, 4 Mar. 2023
  • But his audacious plan to tag up an entire 10-car subway train — widely acknowledged as one of the first to ever try it — would make his career as a hip-hop folk hero.
    — August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2023
  • The ball traveled high in the sky and wasn't hit hard, giving Ryan McKenna plenty of time to prepare to throw home as Vierling tagged up.
    — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 23 Apr. 2023

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