home stand

noun

: a series of baseball games played at a team's home field

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The Sacramento Kings started a home stand Monday by beating the Memphis Grizzlies 132-122, but the organization’s most impressive effort might have been taking single-shot drone footage of the purple beam being lit inside and outside at Golden 1 Center. — David Caraccio, Sacramento Bee, 18 Mar. 2025 Minnesota is 0-2 amid its current five-game home stand, with losses to Sacramento and Washington, two contests in which the Wolves were favored. — Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 4 Feb. 2025 That game was a 1-point loss that started their five-game winless home stand, which culminated with Brown’s firing. — Chris Biderman, Sacramento Bee, 15 Jan. 2025 In the children’s playroom at Chelsea and Van’s home stands a 3-foot-tall statue of Yoda from Star Wars, a castle by the window sill and colorful bean bag pillows. — Ian Max Stevenson, Idaho Statesman, 13 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for home stand

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1965, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of home stand was in 1965

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