0 in baseball, the place that the player has to stand next to in order to hit the ball, and the last place they have to touch to score a point
A runner intending to steal on the pitcher breaks for the next base the moment the pitcher commits to pitch to home plate.
A baserunner who has successfully touched home plate without being tagged out after touching all previous bases in order scores a "run".
Home plate was originally in the southwest corner of the block.
Thousands of east-end seats were very far from home plate, and were not sold unless needed.
The backstop is listed in media sources as 60.5 feet (18.4 m) behind home plate.
His final game as a home plate umpire provided an extraordinary capstone to his career.
The wall has numbers affixed or painted on it that denote the distance in feet from that point on the wall to home plate.
After the 1937 season, home plate was moved out by some twenty feet, decreasing the park's dimensions.
