home plate

noun

Baseball.

1. the base at which the batter stands and which a base runner must reach safely in order to score a run, typically a five-sided slab of whitened rubber set at ground level at the front corner of the diamond.

home plate

noun

1. Also called: plate.  home.  home base. baseball a flat often five-sided piece of hard rubber or other material that serves to define the area over which the pitcher must throw the ball for a strike and that a base runner must safely reach on his way from third base to score a run

Word History and Origins

Origin of home plate¹

An Americanism dating back to 1870–75

Example Sentences

And the ship was only a little wider than the distance from a pitcher’s mound to home plate.

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But then, when the Dodgers emerged from the dugout Wednesday night, it was Rortvedt who went to squat behind home plate.

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Freddie Freeman, left, and Alex Call, center, and other Dodgers players celebrate with Will Smith, right, as he crosses home plate.

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After sheepishly returning to home plate amid a taunting roar from the hostile Dodger Stadium crowd, he flied out with a runner on second.

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The promotional photo distributed with the press release shows Betts relaxing on a beach towel, next to home plate, headphones on.

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