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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
- This leaves the umpire in a position of judgment as to whether or not the batter is properly in the box at least six inches away from home plate.
- It bounces three feet in front of home plate and rolls to the backstop.
- an inside pitch is between home plate and the batter
- The pitcher stands on the pitcher's mound. The hitter stands at the home plate.
- The playing area is delineated by two perpendicular lines that converge at the home plate, the focus point of the diamond made up of four bases - home, first, second and third.
- In 1984, the American baseballer Dock Ellis famously admitted that his 1970 no-hitter occurred while high on LSD ( 'Richard Nixon was the home plate umpire, and I was pitching to Jimi Hendrix, who was holding a guitar ...')," notes Anton Dolicek. Have any footballers been transfer-listed or sacked for being overweight?
- Now here he is throwing the ball, and you see that although he's 6 feet 4 inches he is able, through limberness, to extend his body to roughly 13 linear feet, enabling him to release the ball nearly halfway to home plate. Strasburg delivers
- The groundskeepers dug up and presented the home plate that Boggs knelt down and kissed after circling the bases for his 3000th hit.
- the managers presented their cards to the umpire at home plate
- 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
