understand the shape and I understand plate just not why its called "home" plate.
2006-09-12 12:39:45 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Sports ➔ Baseball
G'day Packersoxfan25,
Thank you for your question
It is said to be home plate because the batter is safe at home having scored a run and cannot be dismissed. It is also a rubber plate as opposed to the canvas bags that are the bases.
The plate is 17 inches by 8 1/2 by 12 by 12 by 8 1/2 inches. A subtlety about the bases is that home plate and the first and third base bags are entirely within the ninety-foot square. They are positioned this way to help the umpires, as any ball hitting those bases must necessarily be in fair territory. Home plate has its peculiar shape in order to help the plate umpire judge whether a pitch is over the plate or not, i.e. whether it might be in the strike zone. The second base bag, which is fully within fair territory, is placed so that its center coincides exactly with the corner or "point" of the ninety-foot infield square. Thus, although the "points" of the bases are 90 feet apart, the physical distance between each successive pair of base markers is closer to 88 feet.
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Regards
2006-09-12 12:57:31 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's called a "plate" because it is not a bag like the other bases, and its home because that is just a logical and acceptable.
2006-09-12 23:59:50 · answer #2 · answered by omnislash7377 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
uuugghhhhh, because it is shaped like a home, maybe, hence, home plate
2006-09-12 19:42:31 · answer #3 · answered by beckyschristine 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because its the plate where you come back to to score
2006-09-12 19:44:47 · answer #4 · answered by Sox Fan 93 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it's the home of the batter. they start there and the goal is to end there by scoring
2006-09-12 21:28:06 · answer #5 · answered by crime.dog738 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's where you start at so that's considered "home."
2006-09-12 19:45:20 · answer #6 · answered by First Lady 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because like your first home you always come back
2006-09-12 19:46:18 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
whazza matter! You don't like your HOME!! (wait, that was a golf movie)
I think they copied from hopscotch.
2006-09-13 01:12:27 · answer #8 · answered by wayfaroutthere 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because the object is "to go home".
2006-09-12 19:55:00 · answer #9 · answered by cantthinkofanygoodnames 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it's where you run to in the end really....Home
2006-09-12 19:44:58 · answer #10 · answered by roguequeen69 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋