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
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The runner was tagged out at home plate.
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The following spring, however, Van Gorder broke his wrist in a play at home plate.
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David Faris, Newsweek, 27 Feb. 2025
Tempe Diablo Stadium does not have Statcast capabilities, but the distance was likely in the 430-foot range given the center-field wall is 420 feet from home plate.
—Justice Delos Santos, The Mercury News, 24 Feb. 2025
One Boston University researcher found in recent years that home plate umpires miss the call roughly 20 percent of the time.
—Keith O'Brien, Rolling Stone, 23 Feb. 2025
Under this system, the Hawk-Eye technology would call every pitch, every time, feeding the call to the home plate umpire through an earpiece.
—Keith O'Brien, Rolling Stone, 23 Feb. 2025
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David Faris, Newsweek, 27 Feb. 2025
Tempe Diablo Stadium does not have Statcast capabilities, but the distance was likely in the 430-foot range given the center-field wall is 420 feet from home plate.
—Justice Delos Santos, The Mercury News, 24 Feb. 2025
One Boston University researcher found in recent years that home plate umpires miss the call roughly 20 percent of the time.
—Keith O'Brien, Rolling Stone, 23 Feb. 2025
Under this system, the Hawk-Eye technology would call every pitch, every time, feeding the call to the home plate umpire through an earpiece.
—Keith O'Brien, Rolling Stone, 23 Feb. 2025
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“Home plate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/home%20plate. Accessed 25 Mar. 2025.
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