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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Under this system, the Hawk-Eye technology would call every pitch, every time, feeding the call to the home plate umpire through an earpiece.
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Keith O'Brien, Rolling Stone, 23 Feb. 2025
That’s a rare gift, and Mel Brooks, who is sitting beside Uecker on the couch, recognizes it, tossing Uecker the comedic equivalent of slow pitches over home plate.
—Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 19 Jan. 2025
There is a better chance Matt Holliday touched home plate.
—Troy Renck, The Denver Post, 12 Jan. 2025
Does the pitcher throw the ball towards home plate, or does the batter throw it at the pitcher’s mound?
—IEEE Spectrum, 14 Jan. 2025
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Keith O'Brien, Rolling Stone, 23 Feb. 2025
That’s a rare gift, and Mel Brooks, who is sitting beside Uecker on the couch, recognizes it, tossing Uecker the comedic equivalent of slow pitches over home plate.
—Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 19 Jan. 2025
There is a better chance Matt Holliday touched home plate.
—Troy Renck, The Denver Post, 12 Jan. 2025
Does the pitcher throw the ball towards home plate, or does the batter throw it at the pitcher’s mound?
—IEEE Spectrum, 14 Jan. 2025
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“Home plate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/home%20plate. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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