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go-ahead run

[goh-uh-hed ruhn]

noun

Baseball.
  1. 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.

  2. 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.



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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of go-ahead run1

First recorded in 1990–95
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Example Sentences

Examples have not been reviewed.

But with the go-ahead run on second base in the eighth inning, Roberts summoned Freeman off the bench.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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