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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After going 10 innings without scoring a run in the CIF-SS finals last spring, the Lions scored in the first inning of the Division 1 championship with Zena Edwards sliding across home plate.
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Dan Albano, Oc Register, 30 May 2026
From 1986 to 2008, Maddux was baseball’s ultimate control pitcher, and home plate umpires were his friends.
—Patrick Saunders, Denver Post, 23 May 2026
Martin crossed home plate to tie the score at 9, but Heher was tagged out at home by Blue Jays junior catcher Clay Hartje.
—Edward Lee, Baltimore Sun, 23 May 2026
As Blue Jays third baseman Kazuma Okamoto collected a groundball and fired across the diamond in Miles’ second-to-last inning, the right-hander ran in from the mound to back up home plate.
—Mitch Bannon, New York Times, 22 May 2026
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Dan Albano, Oc Register, 30 May 2026
From 1986 to 2008, Maddux was baseball’s ultimate control pitcher, and home plate umpires were his friends.
—Patrick Saunders, Denver Post, 23 May 2026
Martin crossed home plate to tie the score at 9, but Heher was tagged out at home by Blue Jays junior catcher Clay Hartje.
—Edward Lee, Baltimore Sun, 23 May 2026
As Blue Jays third baseman Kazuma Okamoto collected a groundball and fired across the diamond in Miles’ second-to-last inning, the right-hander ran in from the mound to back up home plate.
—Mitch Bannon, New York Times, 22 May 2026
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“Home plate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/home%20plate. Accessed 6 Jun. 2026.
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