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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One man, wearing a faded Scott Kingery shirt, admired the view from behind home plate on the club level.
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Matt Gelb, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
Phones were placed on the home plate side of each dugout, where traditional cameras aren’t allowed, Dickerson said.
—Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 26 Sep. 2025
As if written for the spotlight, team icon Aaron Judge crossed home plate for the winning run, brought in from third by Jose Caballero’s walk-off single to center field.
—Julio Cesar Valdera Morales, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Sep. 2025
He was known to kick dirt on home plate while arguing balls and strikes.
—John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Sep. 2025
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Matt Gelb, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
Phones were placed on the home plate side of each dugout, where traditional cameras aren’t allowed, Dickerson said.
—Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 26 Sep. 2025
As if written for the spotlight, team icon Aaron Judge crossed home plate for the winning run, brought in from third by Jose Caballero’s walk-off single to center field.
—Julio Cesar Valdera Morales, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Sep. 2025
He was known to kick dirt on home plate while arguing balls and strikes.
—John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Sep. 2025
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“Home plate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/home%20plate. Accessed 30 Sep. 2025.
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