home plate

Example Sentences

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It was the longest of his three, landing on the Dodger Stadium right-field roof 469 feet from home plate.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 22, 2025

We’re gonna lose right here because I can’t hold home plate with my foot.’”

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 7, 2025

Varsho then crossed home plate after an Ernie Clement sacrifice fly to make it 3-1.

From Barron's • Oct. 30, 2025

He might not get another pitch in the same ZIP Code as home plate.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 28, 2025

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