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.
Recent Examples of home plate from the Web
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With dark wood, vintage bricks and soft lighting, this 7,500 square foot lair carved out below the stands behind home plate as part of the multiyear renovation of the ballpark aims to suggest a hotel lobby bar of a century ago.
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Crouched behind home plate wearing his catcher's mask, Tincher is chewing gum.
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Pinch is located on the lower concourse behind home plate.
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With the count 0-2 on Mark Gomez, a pitch went into the dirt then bounded way up in the air and well into foul territory to the left of home plate, allowing Metz and Olvera to score.
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In the 2002 World Series, J.T. Snow famously saved Baker from imminent danger in front of home plate when the youngster was batboy for father/manager Dusty Baker’s San Francisco Giants.
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The Indians a year ago extended the safety netting at its ballpark, Victory Field, from behind home plate to the far end of each dugout.
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Sure, the Bel Air resident was eager to cheer his team and its rebuilt starting rotation from his vantage behind home plate.
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Expanded safety netting Netting behind home plate will be extended by 72 feet, from section 164 on the third-base side and section 140 on the first-base side.
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First Known Use of home plate
1869
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Definition of home plate for English Language Learners
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baseball : the base that a runner must touch in order to score
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Definition of home plate for Students
: the base that a baseball runner must touch to score
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