Definition of "home plate" [home plate]

• Baseball A base, usually consisting of a hard rubber slab, at one of the corners of a diamond at which a batter stands when hitting and which a base runner must finally touch in order to score. (noun)

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• "Mills had words for home plate umpire Alfonso Marquez after a strike call to Tommy Manzella and was ejected while still in the dugout."
• "Manager Earl Weaver stormed onto the field and persuaded home plate umpire Joe Brinkman to warn Billy Martin that subsequent brushbacks could bring ejections."
• "Martin was so distraught that in the top of the ninth in Game Four, he threw a ball at home plate umpire Bill Deegan, who promptly ejected him."