Home plate Baseball field

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home plate of baseball field


home plate, formally designated home base in rules, final base player must touch score. unlike other bases, home plate five-sided slab of whitened rubber set @ ground level. use of rubber developed robert keating, pitched 1 game 1887 baltimore orioles. previously—and more dangerously—the plate made of stone, iron, or wood.


the dimensions of home plate 17 inches (43.2 cm) across front, 8.5 inches (21.6 cm) down each side, triangular rear of 2 sides of 12 inches (30.5 cm). rear edges @ 45 degrees sides, making point @ back. plate white , surrounded black strip 3/4 inches (1.9 cm) in width. plate sits entirely in fair territory, 2 rear edges aligned right , left field foul lines. length , angle requirements home plate mandate not regular pentagon; 17 inches 8.5 inches (43.2 x 21.6 cm) rectangle isosceles triangle of base 17 inches (43.2 cm) , equal sides of 12 inches (30.5 cm) attached back.


50 100 feet (15 30 meters) behind home plate backstop, wall/fence stop wild pitches, passed balls, , foul balls. in enclosed stadiums, backstop composed of lower part, other part of wall, , upper netting protect spectators seated behind it; in recreational baseball fields, there tall chain-link fence, including angled top section, composing entire backstop.








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