Children playing baseball make mistakes.

It happens. Ground balls scoot between the legs of infielders. Outfielders drop fly balls. And on and on. Anything that can go wrong does.

Which is fine. Go get 'em next time.

But after a while, adult observers sometimes decide on a favorite category of error.

Me? I always find it entertaining when a fielder scoops up a soft roller and promptly sails his throw 10 feet over the first baseman's head. There's something about the flight of the ball that symbolizes everything about the gap between good intentions and doing the right thing.

All God's children have done it. Well, those with decent arms anyway.

You see, that's the thing. It's not like the kid can't make the play. He just miscalculated his release point.

So he'll learn from that. And next time, he'll throw the batter out. Unless, of course, he overcorrects and throws it in the dirt and watches it skip by the first baseman. 

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