How to Use squeeze play in a Sentence

squeeze play

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  • The squeeze play should still be enough for some clouds.
    — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2017
  • The Pioneers went for the squeeze play attempting to go ahead.
    — oregonlive, 15 Apr. 2022
  • The Rockies tried a squeeze play with Garrett Hampson, but the pinch hitter couldn’t lay down the bunt and Hilliard was tagged out at home.
    — Joe Nguyen, The Denver Post, 24 May 2020
  • Brokenborough reached home plate in the bottom of the sixth on a squeeze play when Lexi Rodriguez put down a bunt for the Panthers.
    — Varsity Staff, OrlandoSentinel.com, 13 Apr. 2018
  • David Weathers, Loretto High’s pitching coach, called for a squeeze play that ended up costing the team the game.
    — Jeff Sanders, sandiegouniontribune.com, 2 July 2018
  • By midday Thursday, the framework agreement was looking less and less like an agreement and more and more like a squeeze play to finally get the deal done.
    — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2021
  • After Shrewsbury tied the game at three in the fifth, the Tigers answered in the sixth and took the lead on another squeeze play, executed by Melo who, dropped the bunt down the first base line.
    — Karl Capen, BostonGlobe.com, 23 June 2019
  • Then came the slow-motion squeeze play of glitzification.
    — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 20 Jan. 2021
  • Then Kiner-Falefa worked in that squeeze play, scoring Benintendi for the winning run.
    — Julian McWilliams, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Aug. 2022
  • After pinch-hitter Richard Sorrenti walked, Bailey executed the squeeze play that allowed Tissue to score with the tying run.
    — Creg Stephenson | Cstephenson@al.com, al, 20 Feb. 2021
  • Hernandez, who had run into an out in an extra-inning loss to Seattle on Thursday and bunted too hard on a squeeze play on Friday, found a way to combine both of those mistakes Monday with his fifth-inning bunt.
    — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 23 Aug. 2021

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