How to Use home plate in a Sentence

home plate

noun

• The runner was tagged out at home plate.
• The benches and bullpens cleared, and the teams pushed and shoved near home plate.
  — Mark Heim | [e-mail], al, 27 Apr. 2022
• Pinder caught the ball with his back to home plate and knees stuck in the ground.
  — Steve Kroner, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 May 2021
• The plaque was placed on the fence behind home plate last week.
  — James Weber, The Enquirer, 26 May 2021
• Note this is just the bases, as home plate remains the same size.
  — Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2021
• Wade’s sixth home run of the year landed in the drink 412 feet from home plate.
  — Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 4 Sep. 2024
• In 2019, Schrock bent both of his knees and crouched to the same height as the home plate umpire.
  — Charlie Goldsmith, The Enquirer, 4 Sep. 2021
• Jonathan Schoop, the game-winning run, touched home plate and tossed his arms in the air.
  — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 27 May 2022
• Ortiz scored as the Cactus throw to home plate missed the mark.
  — Katherine Fitzgerald, azcentral, 15 May 2018
• In the early days of baseball, the home plate was made of stone, iron or wood.
  — Fred Bowen, Washington Post, 7 Aug. 2019
• The throw was high, though, and Gautreaux scurried his way to home plate for St. Amant's third run of the game.
  — Josh Preston, NOLA.com, 24 Apr. 2018
• There was no need to watch Odor cross home plate to cap the six-run comeback to tie the game.
  — Hunter Atkins, Houston Chronicle, 11 June 2018
• The pitch was low and outside to Zach Neto and bounced in front of home plate.
  — Cody Stavenhagen, The Athletic, 28 Aug. 2024
• But Salvador Perez struck out on a pitch that bounced in front of home plate to end the threat.
  — Maria Torres, kansascity, 4 July 2018
• He was tossed from the game by Wolcott, the home plate umpire.
  — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 19 Aug. 2021
• Despite the hit, Phillips, a freshman, got up and stepped on home plate.
  — Cydney Henderson, USA TODAY, 21 Apr. 2022
• The fish tanks were on either side of home plate, near the on-deck circles.
  — Steve Gardner, USA TODAY, 18 Mar. 2021
• Flanked by staff in a suite behind home plate, Trump smiled and clapped.
  — David Waldstein, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2019
• After he was knocked down by the pitcher, the baserunner got up and jogged to touch the home plate.
  — Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN, 21 Apr. 2022
• Screech was located just in front of the home plate to receive the pitch.
  — Misty Severi, Washington Examiner, 6 June 2023
• There was one problem with De La Cruz’s throw to home plate.
  — Charlie Goldsmith, The Enquirer, 20 July 2023
• Iowa crossed home plate 16 times in a Missouri win last week.
  — Aaron Reiss, kansascity, 7 May 2018
• Arte should be carving statues of those two for the home plate plaza.
  — Los Angeles Times, 22 July 2023
• Brady Ebel reached base when a pop fly in front of home plate dropped for a single.
  — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2024
• Melvin emerged from the dugout to talk with home plate umpire Greg Gibson, the crew chief.
  — Matt Kawahara, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Sep. 2021
• Then Arozarena tripped and fell 45 feet from home plate.
  — Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2020
• With two outs in the inning, Chambers missed a pop-up just in front of home plate.
  — Andrew Joseph, For The Win, 11 June 2018
• Blake Snell ran around the infield with a plastic goose and dropped it near home plate.
  — Bernie Wilson, ajc, 16 Oct. 2022
• In the second, teammates had to remind him to touch home plate in the chaos of catcher Gary Sanchez dropping the baseball.
  — Brendan Kuty, New York Times, 22 June 2025
• Simpson, despite being arguably the fastest player in the sport, was not able to cross home plate before Alex Bregman made the tag on Aranda.
  — Mac Cerullo, Hartford Courant, 13 July 2025