home plate
noun/ˈhəʊm pleɪt/
/ˈhəʊm pleɪt/
(also home base)
(North American English also plate)
- (in baseball) the place where the person hitting the ball stands and where they must return to after running around all the basesTopics Sports: ball and racket sportsc2
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