home plate

noun

|Updated on: 5 Aug 2018

Examples: home plate in a Sentence

Definition of home plate

: 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

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Examples of home plate in a Sentence

The runner was tagged out at home plate.

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Instead, stand in front of it, which also shortens the distance to home plate from 60 feet 6 inches to around 50 feet, increasing the odds that your ball will make it to the catcher.

— malia wollan, New York Times, "How to Throw Out a Ceremonial First Pitch," 3 July 2018
Instead, playing in the final game of his high school career before heading to the University of Louisville for baseball, shortstop Alex Binelas made the stop on the grounder and fired to home plate to get the second out.

— curt hogg, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "Oak Creek, Sussex Hamilton grab share of Greater Metro Conference baseball title," 2 July 2018
Luke Allen was the winning pitcher, collecting the second and third outs when his left fielder caught a fly ball then delivered an accurate throw to home plate for the dramatic twin-killing.

— robert avery, Houston Chronicle, "Bayside 11s defeat Texas City 12-11 to clinch berth in District 14 title contest," 28 June 2018
An errant throw to home plate on Dylan Arnold’s chopper to third scored two more runs for the Cougars.

— karl capen, BostonGlobe.com, "Cam Seguin, Austin Prep topple Taconic in D3 baseball final," 23 June 2018
After the celebration from the Gators' Super Regional walkoff to advance to the College World Series subsided, Schwarz made his way behind home plate, squatted down and soaked in the moment at McKethan Stadium for one last time.

— jordan mcpherson, miamiherald, "UF baseball fell short of a championship, but future expectations remain the same," 23 June 2018
McVay was sitting behind home plate, and a shoulder injury prevented her from deflecting the flying food, WPVI reported.

— stephanie petit, PEOPLE.com, "Phillies Baseball Fan Gets Injured by a Foul … Hotdog: It 'Hit Me Like a Ton of Bricks'," 21 June 2018
The throw to home plate got by the catcher as Miller crossed, allowing Faith McCoskey to score and tie the score.

— paul shepherd, Indianapolis Star, "IHSAA softball: After losing to Danville 3 times this season, Tri-West gets last laugh," 23 May 2018
So both benches cleared and relievers came rumbling in from the outfield even though everything had already settled down by the time anyone arrived to home plate.

— ted berg, For The Win, "Bench-clearing MLB incident de-escalates into brief tickle fight," 9 May 2018

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