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(baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands; it must be touched by a base runner in order to score
he ruled that the runner failed to touch home
How To Use home plate In A Sentence
- They know the frustration, the anxiety, the helplessness and the embarrassment of being on the mound and throwing pitches nowhere near home plate, heaving some to the backstop.
- It appears that in most big league parks, the inside vertical line (closest to home plate) of the batter's box is not outlined.
- Eric Byrnes, left, ran into the shinguard of Red Sox catcher Jason Varitek and never touched home plate in Game 3 of the ALDS. USATODAY.com - The drama's been great, but often the play has not
- With two out in the fourth, the Yanks had Shane Spencer on second and Scott Brosius on first when Alfonso Soriano hit a towering pop fly in front of home plate.
- With Michael and Munson double-teaming him before the rest of the players reached home plate, Fisk endured a scratch to his face and a bruise near his eye.
- I paid a handsome sum of twenty dollars for home plate box seats.
- In its upper reaches the stream and its banks are bare as the baseline from home plate to first base.
- How the hell could you get up to home plate every day and have some son of a bitch call you a Jew bastard and a kike and a sheenie and get on your ass without feeling the pressure. ROB NEYER’S BIG BOOK OF BASEBALL LEGENDS
- I thought about a lot more in that minute, too - freezing my tail off at barn-like arenas across Ontario, lobbing softballs towards home plate during practice, seeing her first goal tickle the twine on the soccer pitch.
- Halladay, who jawboned his way into being traded to a contending team so he finally could pitch in the playoffs, made a stunning debut, culminating with a dribbler in front of home plate that catcher Carlos Ruiz pounced on and threw to first for the final out. Top Moments: Rethinking Kanye West, the Beatles and The Event
