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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Stovall also chugged around and slid head first into home and was called safe by home plate umpire Chris Coskey.
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Tom Murphy, arkansasonline.com, 10 Apr. 2024
Back then, the park may have merely consisted of first-, second- and third-base diamonds, a home plate and a pitcher’s mound set in a large patch of grass, McKee surmised.
—Joe Marusak, Charlotte Observer, 3 Apr. 2024
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Tom Murphy, arkansasonline.com, 10 Apr. 2024
Back then, the park may have merely consisted of first-, second- and third-base diamonds, a home plate and a pitcher’s mound set in a large patch of grass, McKee surmised.
—Joe Marusak, Charlotte Observer, 3 Apr. 2024
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“Home plate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/home%20plate. Accessed 3 May. 2024.
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