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
• Jonathan Schoop, the game-winning run, touched home plate and tossed his arms in the air.
  — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 27 May 2022
• Despite the hit, Phillips, a freshman, got up and stepped on home plate.
  — Cydney Henderson, USA TODAY, 21 Apr. 2022
• 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
• Arte should be carving statues of those two for the home plate plaza.
  — Los Angeles Times, 22 July 2023
• Blake Snell ran around the infield with a plastic goose and dropped it near home plate.
  — Bernie Wilson, ajc, 16 Oct. 2022
• Maile was standing with his left foot on the far right corner of home plate.
  — Charlie Goldsmith, The Enquirer, 20 July 2023
• The ball caromed off the backstop and back between the home plate umpire’s legs.
  — Mark Heim | [e-mail], al, 16 Aug. 2022
• Then home plate umpire Edwin Jimenez waved his hands in the air.
  — Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY, 27 Apr. 2022
• But home plate umpire David Rackley did not give him the call.
  — Joe Noga, cleveland, 24 May 2022
• But home plate umpire Mark Carlson called the pitch ball four.
  — Mike Digiovanna, Los Angeles Times, 3 Apr. 2023
• On a 2-and-2 count, Chavez threw a strike that home plate umpire Brian O’Nora called a ball.
  — Sarah Valenzuela, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2022
• Then Pham skipped across home plate and pounded his chest.
  — Charlie Goldsmith, The Enquirer, 6 July 2022
• Logan Moran went 3-for-4 with 1 run scored while Ethan Beal crossed home plate twice.
  — Orlando Sentinel, 11 May 2022
• The man who applied the tag was Maile, who sprinted from home plate to cover third.
  — Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 18 June 2022
• Then Reyes swung from his heels and caught the edge of the pitch and sent the ball blistering back over the netting behind home plate.
  — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 27 Aug. 2023
• Agent Scott Boras and his staff filled the first row a section behind home plate.
  — Ronald Blum, Chicago Tribune, 17 July 2022
• The cowards cut the statue off at the ankles, leaving nothing but two shoes on a base the shape of home plate.
  — Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 31 Jan. 2024
• At high tide, home plate could be covered by more than 10 feet of water.
  — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Apr. 2022
• Some of the world’s most contentious land battles may take place at a baseball field's home plate.
  — Robert Hawley, ABC News, 6 Sep. 2023
• Nimmo then bounded out of the dugout and hugged Reeves before the three posed for a picture near home plate.
  — Jerry Beach, Hartford Courant, 4 Sep. 2022
• The Blue Jays cut the lead to 1 when Springer slid into home plate just ahead of the tag on a sacrifice fly by Guerrero.
  — Kristie Rieken, Chron, 24 Apr. 2022
• The teams played seven innings with 70-foot bases and with the pitching rubber 50 feet from home plate.
  — Alex Kushel, Sun Sentinel, 2 June 2022
• One of the Stadium’s unique features is the awning that, at one time, covered the seats behind home plate.
  — Ben Thomas | [e-mail], al, 24 July 2022
• In the math station, for instance, kids measure the length of bats and the distance between home plate and the pitchers’ mound.
  — Katie Knight, Kansas City Star, 31 Jan. 2024
• Loge level, third row, on the right side of home plate, Erwin on the aisle next to her, the batters directly in front of her.
  — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 27 Aug. 2023
• After a single, the rookie stole second, third and then home plate.
  — Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 14 July 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024