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go-ahead run
[goh-uh-hed ruhn]
noun
a run that puts the batting team in the lead.
The runner on third scores easily, and that’s the go-ahead run for Baltimore.
the runner who occupies a base closer to home plate than any other runner and who represents the team’s next opportunity to score a tie-breaking run.
The go-ahead run is on second base, and any decent hit from Jackson is gonna bring him home.
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of go-ahead run1
Example Sentences
But with the go-ahead run on second base in the eighth inning, Roberts summoned Freeman off the bench.
Ethan Hedges hit two home runs and drove in the go-ahead run to lift USC baseball to a 6-4 win over Saint Mary’s in the Corvallis Regional.
Santa Margarita 6, Huntington Beach 5: Chase Marlow singled in the go-ahead run in the seventh inning to give the Eagles an upset over Sunset League champion Huntington Beach.
Walking Ohtani would have moved the go-ahead run to third base, and with Kim’s speed, any ball put in play by the next batter would have likely resulted in a run.
The Diamondbacks’ go-ahead run scored amid more contentious circumstances, as right-hander Luis García tried to escape another bases-loaded, two-out jam he inherited from Banda in the sixth.
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