Talk:Hit the Diamond/@comment-26959782-20160523174546

From the current article: " "Hit the diamond" is a popular baseball term used when a player hits the home-plate diamond with their bat before swinging."

That's not the meaning of that phrase. "Hit the diamond" is just a slang expression for playing baseball in general, with the "diamond" being the shape of the infield. In particular, home plate is not a diamond but a pentagon.