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home plate

noun as in slab marking baseball home

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When the pitcher hurls the ball at 96 miles per hour toward home plate, the batter doesn’t have enough time to wait for the ball to come close, consciously see it, and then prepare and execute the swing.

Upon hearing this, the Gorillas hitter runs out of the batter’s box, chops down a gigantic tree, and lugs it back to home plate for a bat, his cigar dangling from his mouth.

So it calculated the strike zone where home plate used to be.

Instead, a box-shaped radar dish located above home plate sends pulses of radio waves toward the pitcher.

The first suite level is 39 feet, 7 inches closer, and the closest seating behind home plate is 10 feet closer, just 42 feet from home plate.

Ruth demanded the home plate umpire inspect the ball, according to multiple writers on hand.

Again, near home plate, he turned his head at the call of the pompous man who meant to award the pennant to Belden.

The home plate should if possible be a piece of whitened rubber.

This and home plate should be buried so that they are flush with the surface of the field.

There were two men out when he grasped the ashen stick and took his stand beside the home plate.

Then came another one-base hit, and amid a wild yelling the runner from second slid in over the home plate.

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On this page you'll find 14 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to home plate, such as: dish, home, home base, platter, and the plate.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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