GO-AHEAD RUN Definition & Meaning

go-ahead run

[ goh-uh-hed ruhn ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

Baseball.

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.

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of go-ahead run¹

First recorded in 1990–95

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Teoscar Hernández hit a potential double-play chopper that was instead thrown away by Cubs second baseman Jon Berti, allowing Ohtani to score the go-ahead run.

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The move didn’t pan out, with Volpe hitting a sharp grounder up the middle that the shortstop Tommy Edman bobbled from his knees, getting only one out at second as Chisholm scored the go-ahead run.

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Boone, batting right-handed, scored the go-ahead run in the eighth after hitting an RBI single.

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Reflecting on his seventh-inning single that drove in the go-ahead run in a 7-2 victory over the San Diego Padres on Thursday that secured the Dodgers their most recent division title, Ohtani described himself as being in a trance-like state.

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Mookie Betts drives in the go-ahead run in the ninth before Teoscar Hernández, Tommy Edman and Max Muncy hit consecutive home runs in a 9-2 win over Atlanta.

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