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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Soto quickly expressed his displeasure after the home plate umpire called a third strike in the fifth inning.
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Chantz Martin, FOXNews.com, 25 June 2025
Meanwhile, Jazz Chisholm Jr. was ejected by home plate umpire Mark Wegner in the middle of the ninth inning.
—Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 25 June 2025
Burns started Judge with a slider near the top of the zone that home plate umpire Mark Wegner called a ball, even though MLB’s GameDay showed the pitch easily inside the zone.
—C. Trent Rosecrans, New York Times, 24 June 2025
Both were ejected after the broadcast appeared to show Schnall coming out of the dugout to argue with the home plate umpire Angel Campos.
—Jacob Lev, CNN Money, 22 June 2025
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Chantz Martin, FOXNews.com, 25 June 2025
Meanwhile, Jazz Chisholm Jr. was ejected by home plate umpire Mark Wegner in the middle of the ninth inning.
—Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 25 June 2025
Burns started Judge with a slider near the top of the zone that home plate umpire Mark Wegner called a ball, even though MLB’s GameDay showed the pitch easily inside the zone.
—C. Trent Rosecrans, New York Times, 24 June 2025
Both were ejected after the broadcast appeared to show Schnall coming out of the dugout to argue with the home plate umpire Angel Campos.
—Jacob Lev, CNN Money, 22 June 2025
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“Home plate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/home%20plate. Accessed 5 Jul. 2025.
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