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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Sarah Stier / Getty Images Anthony Volpe slides safely into home plate. —

Rohan Nadkarni, NBC News, 30 Oct. 2024 Henderson loved interacting with the fans behind home plate at the Coliseum, often stopping in the tunnel leading to the dugout to sign autographs. —

Melissa Lockard, The Athletic, 21 Dec. 2024 Four premium seats behind home plate will also be available to Soto for each home game. —

Dan Freedman, Forbes, 14 Dec. 2024 But the field needs a new scoreboard, seating behind home plate and, ideally, indoor training facilities that would allow kids of all ages to use it all year round. —

Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 7 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for home plate