1. Eri Yamada put out the sacrifice fly and threw the ball direct to home plate to remove Li.
2. When things finally settled down, there was catching equipment strewn all over the field behind home plate.
3. " I just wanted to continue the inning, " Ross said after emerging from the mob of teammates at home plate.
4. In the previous playoff game at Busch Stadium, a squirrel scampered across home plate while the Cardinals were hitting.
5. The story of how Grossman and Murray created Home Plate is indeed one of exhaustion and frustration but it is also an encouraging one.