Editing Baseball field (section)

==== Home base ====
{{redirect|Home plate}}
[[File:Baseball home plate diagram.svg|thumb|Specifications of home plate (inches)<ref name="geospecs">{{cite journal |last1=Bradley |first1=Michael J. |date=February 1996 |title=Building Home Plate: Field of Dreams or Reality? |url=https://scholarworks.merrimack.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1010&context=mth_facpub |journal=[[Mathematics Magazine]] |volume=69 |issue=1 |pages=44–45 |doi=10.1080/0025570X.1996.11996379 |access-date=20 January 2022|url-access=subscription }}</ref>]]
Home base, usually called "home plate", is the final base that a player must touch to score a run. Unlike the other bases, home plate is a [[pentagon|five-sided]] slab of white rubber that is set at ground level.