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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Nearly 20 professional baseball scouts congregate behind Blessed Trinity’s home plate with clipboards and radar guns.
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Jack Leo, AJC.com, 8 Apr. 2026
With his face beat red, Schneider leapt out of the dugout and got right in the face of home plate umpire Dan Merzel, who had called the balk on Gausman.
—Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 8 Apr. 2026
The Guardians had trouble in the outfield, which allowed Thomas to cross home plate.
—Kansas City Star, 8 Apr. 2026
Anthony came up firing, but his throw came nowhere close to home plate.
—Greg Dudek, Boston Herald, 7 Apr. 2026
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Jack Leo, AJC.com, 8 Apr. 2026
With his face beat red, Schneider leapt out of the dugout and got right in the face of home plate umpire Dan Merzel, who had called the balk on Gausman.
—Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 8 Apr. 2026
The Guardians had trouble in the outfield, which allowed Thomas to cross home plate.
—Kansas City Star, 8 Apr. 2026
Anthony came up firing, but his throw came nowhere close to home plate.
—Greg Dudek, Boston Herald, 7 Apr. 2026
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“Home plate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/home%20plate. Accessed 11 Apr. 2026.
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