home plates

Diamond scoring zones

Home plates is the plural of home plate, the five-sided rubber slab at one corner of a baseball diamond where batters stand and runners must touch to score.

The term rarely appears in plural since each field has only one: The groundskeeper replaced worn home plates on three diamonds.

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Middle outfield position

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