How to Use home plate in a Sentence

home plate

noun
Definition of home platenext
  • The runner was tagged out at home plate.
  • The benches and bullpens cleared, and the teams pushed and shoved near home plate.
    — Mark Heim | [email protected], al, 27 Apr. 2022
  • The plaque was placed on the fence behind home plate last week.
    — James Weber, The Enquirer, 26 May 2021
  • In 2019, Schrock bent both of his knees and crouched to the same height as the home plate umpire.
    — Charlie Goldsmith, The Enquirer, 4 Sep. 2021
  • Jonathan Schoop, the game-winning run, touched home plate and tossed his arms in the air.
    — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 27 May 2022
  • He was tossed from the game by Wolcott, the home plate umpire.
    — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 19 Aug. 2021
  • Despite the hit, Phillips, a freshman, got up and stepped on home plate.
    — Cydney Henderson, USA TODAY, 21 Apr. 2022
  • After he was knocked down by the pitcher, the baserunner got up and jogged to touch the home plate.
    — Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN, 21 Apr. 2022
  • Screech was located just in front of the home plate to receive the pitch.
    — Misty Severi, Washington Examiner, 6 June 2023
  • There was one problem with De La Cruz’s throw to home plate.
    — Charlie Goldsmith, The Enquirer, 20 July 2023
  • Arte should be carving statues of those two for the home plate plaza.
    — Los Angeles Times, 22 July 2023
  • Brady Ebel reached base when a pop fly in front of home plate dropped for a single.
    — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2024
  • Melvin emerged from the dugout to talk with home plate umpire Greg Gibson, the crew chief.
    — Matt Kawahara, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Sep. 2021
  • Blake Snell ran around the infield with a plastic goose and dropped it near home plate.
    — Bernie Wilson, ajc, 16 Oct. 2022
  • Maile was standing with his left foot on the far right corner of home plate.
    — Charlie Goldsmith, The Enquirer, 20 July 2023
  • There was no throw to be made, so Hill turned on his speed and crossed home plate with a head-first slide.
    — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 12 Sep. 2021
  • When the Giants opened the season, Buster Posey was back behind home plate, in the squat.
    — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 May 2021
  • The ball caromed off the backstop and back between the home plate umpire’s legs.
    — Mark Heim | [email protected], al, 16 Aug. 2022
  • Then home plate umpire Edwin Jimenez waved his hands in the air.
    — Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY, 27 Apr. 2022
  • But home plate umpire David Rackley did not give him the call.
    — Joe Noga, cleveland, 24 May 2022
  • But home plate umpire Mark Carlson called the pitch ball four.
    — Mike Digiovanna, Los Angeles Times, 3 Apr. 2023
  • On a 2-and-2 count, Chavez threw a strike that home plate umpire Brian O’Nora called a ball.
    — Sarah Valenzuela, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2022
  • The home plate umpire expands the strike zone a bit for Japan’s best pitchers.
    — Washington Post, 30 Sep. 2021
  • Then Pham skipped across home plate and pounded his chest.
    — Charlie Goldsmith, The Enquirer, 6 July 2022
  • Logan Moran went 3-for-4 with 1 run scored while Ethan Beal crossed home plate twice.
    — Orlando Sentinel, 11 May 2022
  • The man who applied the tag was Maile, who sprinted from home plate to cover third.
    — Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 18 June 2022
  • Then Schwarber watched the pop-up drop as Joey Gallo crossed home plate.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 24 Sep. 2021
  • But Gary Sanchez lost the high pop-up behind home plate in the fifth inning and that kept the door open for Cleveland.
    — courant.com, 18 Sep. 2021
  • Where the old home plate used to be, a new home plate is in a small-scale field set up for fans to hit wiffle balls, round the bases and snag balls hit into play.
    — Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 July 2024
  • Those stitches are bumpy enough to affect the airflow around the baseball as it's thrown toward home plate.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 13 Aug. 2024

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