home stand

noun

: a series of baseball games played at a team's home field

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According to the blueprints, this tiny home stands 24 feet long by 10 feet wide (not counting the 3-foot porch space), and the walls are 8 feet tall, with an extra foot of height on top for the flat ceiling. —

Clint Davis, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Oct. 2024 This is the same team, mind you, that was shut out three times while losing the final four games of its previous home stand. —

Evan Webeck, The Mercury News, 24 Sep. 2024 Beginning with a three-game set against New York on Friday, the A’s have officially entered their final home stand in The Town, the final days of what has been a six-month-long wake. —

Justice Delos Santos, The Mercury News, 20 Sep. 2024 The latest: The Phillies play three more games with the Mets, followed by a three-game home stand against the Cubs and then end the season with a three-game road series against the Nationals. —

Isaac Avilucea, Axios, 19 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for home stand

Word History

First Known Use

1965, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler

The first known use of home stand was in 1965

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