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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As Reedy worked on the infield dirt around home plate, the sun came out in full as Coors the grass shimmered.
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Patrick Saunders, Denver Post, 7 May 2026
Story stared down Valdez as Tigers catcher Dillon Dingler, and home plate umpire Adam Beck got in between the two.
—Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 6 May 2026
Gaston recalled once watching Turner challenge longtime pitcher Tug McGraw to a contest to see who could roll a baseball to home plate, using only their noses, the fastest.
—Andrew Greif, NBC news, 6 May 2026
Four batters later, Braden Shewmake became the second batter to take Ohtani deep all year, lifting a ball to left field that the Crawford Boxes swallowed a mere 337 feet from home plate.
—Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 6 May 2026
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Patrick Saunders, Denver Post, 7 May 2026
Story stared down Valdez as Tigers catcher Dillon Dingler, and home plate umpire Adam Beck got in between the two.
—Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 6 May 2026
Gaston recalled once watching Turner challenge longtime pitcher Tug McGraw to a contest to see who could roll a baseball to home plate, using only their noses, the fastest.
—Andrew Greif, NBC news, 6 May 2026
Four batters later, Braden Shewmake became the second batter to take Ohtani deep all year, lifting a ball to left field that the Crawford Boxes swallowed a mere 337 feet from home plate.
—Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 6 May 2026
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“Home plate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/home%20plate. Accessed 9 May. 2026.
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