Adults had to run bases backward, facing home plate while running to first, for example.
Home plate umpire Jerry Meals called two strikes on Crawford that, at best, were questionable.
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Carter rushed from the dugout to join the celebration at home plate, catcher's gear already on.
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The left-hander was lifted onto a stretcher and wheeled off the field through an opening behind home plate.
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In baseball, umpires are supposed to call balls and strikes based on where a ball crosses home plate.
Former Mets ace Dwight Gooden sat four rows behind home plate, updating Harvey's K count on Twitter, as usual.
Fred Wilpon, Katz, and Jeff Wilpon watch games from three adjoining boxes just above the screen behind home plate.
Looking initially like a fastball, it darts down as it reaches home plate, leaving batters flailing at thin air.
The Yankees also threw out a runner at home plate in the eighth just before Murphy singled to center field.
He chatted with coaches, posed with players and then leaned up against the backstop behind home plate to simply watch.
Instead of backing up home plate on the play, Strasburg ambled around on the infield grass and looked into the dugout.
Minor connected after a two-out single by Chris Johnson, and they smiled the whole way from home plate back to the bench.
Minor homered after a two-out single by Chris Johnson, and they smiled the whole way from home plate back to the bench.
"They're not going to stop us from doing things we love to do, " he said, sitting a few rows behind home plate.
July 4, 1932 New York Yankees catcher Bill Dickey punches Washington's Carl Reynolds, breaking his jaw, after Reynolds bowls him over at home plate.
Washington said afterward that the home plate area was too soft.
He credits this machine for his ability to zing a ball from the outfield to home plate even if there's no time for any warmup throws.
An instant after scoring the tying run in the seventh inning, speedy Juan Pierre was called for interference when he collided with Buck far from home plate.
Inside the Delta Club, a lounge that leads to the stands behind home plate, two proud parents and one proud grandmother were watching Mike Baxter live a dream.
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But it gets the job done and crosses the home plate in style. 42 may not be a home run, but it steals third without breaking a sweat.
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Because he never made it to home plate, the final score of the game was changed from 7-3 to 4-3, and Ventura was given credit for a walk-off single.
Girardi, who was drafted by Colorado in 1992, was presented with a Rockies jersey in a home plate ceremony before the game as part of the Rockies' 20th anniversary celebration.
An instant after scoring the tying run in the seventh inning, speedy Juan Pierre was called for interference when he collided with Mets catcher John Buck far from home plate.
At every Brewers home game, five sausages standing over 7 feet tall--bratwurst, Polish, Italian, hot dog and chorizo--entertain fans by racing each other down the warning track and around home plate.
It could be viewed without assistance from the upper deck, and surely at home plate, where the unimpressed Red Sox pounded Chamberlain for another three ugly runs and rendered the Stadium silent.
Unusually nimble for someone 6-feet-4, 370 pounds, Mr. Phillips entered the course, sporting a Spyderco T-shirt, and took a few practice swings, just like Derek Jeter might before heading to home plate.
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