home plate
Example Sentences
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Báez, now 23, pulverized the very first pitch he saw as a big-leaguer over the center-field fence, a titanic blast that landed 449 feet away from home plate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
Late in the season, he jammed his left elbow sliding into home plate, jarring loose some bone chips.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
All the tickets in Irvine put you right behind home plate, because there are barely 1,000 seats.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
“I’ve had a great life and an enjoyable life, but no sense of bond and family,” Kaplan said between innings as dust from home plate lingered about, tears welling up from who-knows-what.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
It has been calculated that a baseball thrown at a hundred miles an hour will pick up 0.000000000002 grams of mass on its way to home plate.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
