home plate
noun
: a 5-sided rubber slab at one corner of a baseball diamond at which a batter stands when batting and which must be touched by a base runner in order to score
Examples of home plate in a Sentence
The runner was tagged out at home plate.
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With Orioles shortstop Gunnar Henderson facing a 2-2 count in the top of the fourth inning, Astros reliever Shawn Dubin bounced a 90 mph changeup in front of home plate that ricocheted off Barry’s mask.
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C.j. Doon, Baltimore Sun, 22 June 2024
Mays kept running, and running, and running, and made a miraculous basket catch with his back to home plate.
—Sean Gregory, TIME, 19 June 2024
The foul-line distances were short, 277 feet in left field, 258 in right, but the center-field fence, the far rim of the tub, was 455 feet from home plate.
—Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2024
His statue now stands in the plaza named after him outside the home plate gate of the Giants’ home park.
—Evan Webeck, The Mercury News, 18 June 2024
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C.j. Doon, Baltimore Sun, 22 June 2024
Mays kept running, and running, and running, and made a miraculous basket catch with his back to home plate.
—Sean Gregory, TIME, 19 June 2024
The foul-line distances were short, 277 feet in left field, 258 in right, but the center-field fence, the far rim of the tub, was 455 feet from home plate.
—Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2024
His statue now stands in the plaza named after him outside the home plate gate of the Giants’ home park.
—Evan Webeck, The Mercury News, 18 June 2024
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“Home plate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/home%20plate. Accessed 4 Jul. 2024.
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