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Definition(s):

  • (n) (baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands; it must be touched by a base runner in order to score

Synonym(s)

home base, plate

Usage(s):

  1. Sporting a White Sox jacket and jeans, he tossed a looper to Albert Pujols that bounced just in front of home plate.
  2. Then wonderful Willie Mays raced almost back to the Harlem River to pull down a long fly with his back to home plate and save the ball game.
  3. For a pitcher, it's the strike zone over home plate that suddenly begins to jump around.
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