re: Have you ever made a mistake in sports that haunts you?

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Did you ever make an error or mistake playing baseball, basketball, or football that you won't forget?

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The core of our baseball team had been together for about 9 years or so by the time my senior year rolled around. During legion that year two of our former pitchers were able to come back and play because they were young enough and they were pitching in college. We were pretty loaded and ready to make a run at state that summer. Played well all summer and were poised to move on and got caught it a tight game. We had several opportunities to win the game and missed.

I came up to the pate, down 1 run with 2 outs in the bottom of whatever the final inning was at that time (not sure if were were playing the full 9) with a runner on second. The game was being played at UNO, and I remember thinking to myself I wanted to catch a pitch so hard I'd send it into Lake Pontchartrain! After getting a mediocre fastball EXACTLY where I wanted and fouling it straight back (meaning I had JUST missed it) I got a second one slightly higher in the zone and popped it up to short. As soon as I hit it the first thought that came to my mind was that I'd just ended the baseball careers of me and most of my friends.

Yeah...I still think about it.

all star practice in baseball. i was basically boss at defense at all positions but hadn't really played 3B much before (i was a SS/CF mostly). wasn't paying attention and was playing up and some kid hits a rocket right off my forehead. had stitch marks in my forehead for a day or so

i got taken out of a football game one time because it was muddy and my uniform was too clean

Naw.. i played pretty flawless.

> Be me.
> Eighth grade football.
> I'm scared to go to football practice because I'm only 5'2" 115lbs and the coaches basically use me as a tackling dummy.
> Still want to play football though.
> I hide out in the restrooms in the building next door to the locker room playing Pokemon.
> After doing this for a couple of weeks, the coach finally finds out.
> He brings entire team to the bathroom one day to confront me.
> I start crying in front of everyone.
> Coach tells me that I'm off the team, calls me a "bitch knuckle."
> Don't tell my mom that I was kicked off the team.
> Tell her that I need a ride to the game (the team usually rides together on the bus), make up some BS excuse.
> I think that maybe if I prove my worth at the game, he'll let me back on the team and maybe even let me continue playing Pokemon in the restroom.
> Mom drops me off at the game.
> I need pads and a uniform so I run out and try to jerk the pads and uniform off of one of the players.
> Coach is yelling at me to go home.
> I run out on the field and grab the football and push one of the opposing team's players.
> Referee and players start chasing me so I run back to my mom's car in the parking lot.
> She starts screaming at me and puts the car in reverse.
> She backs into the school bus at full speed.
> Police come.
> Turns out she's intoxicated above the legal limit, police arrest her.
> I ride home in a patrol car.
> Arrive home and discover my Dad cheating on my mom with our neighbor.
> Parents get a divorce.
> I get a two week suspension from school and I'm not allowed at school events outside of school.

Kickball league when I was around 26, high fly ball to center field, hit me in the chest and bounces about as high as it was kicked. I'm pretty athletic so this was a huge hit to my ego.

Didn’t cost them the game, but my son and his holder made a mess of it last week.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=d-DVY-QDces

10 or 11 years old little league baseball. We were playing the team who had beaten us at state the year before in an elimination game to get to the championship. Up 1-0 in the 5th (of 6 total innings) they had runners on 2nd and 3rd with 2 outs and I was catching. Runner on 3rd was taking a huge secondary lead and I just knew I could gun him down. I get a pitch high and away and immediately gun one to 3rd. Had him dead in the water, he was so shocked trying to get back to the base that he slipped and fell. Only the ball went about 15 feet over the 3rd basemans head down the left field line. Both runs scored. We lost 2-1. I cried for about a week over that one.

First year high school wrestling. Our 171lb Varsity guy tweaked his shoulder or something that day. Coach found me about mid day at school and told me I was the only other option. Nervous all day long, get to the match warm up and feeling confident. Opponent head throws me and pins me in about 15 seconds.

I was 8 years old in the last at bat of the last game of the season of 7-8 baseball (coach pitch). I hit my first ever over-the-fence homerun. My dad was coaching first base, and we celebrated so much that I missed touching 1st base. Neither of us realized it, but the opposing coach saw it. He appealed while I was in the dugout, and I was called out. I'd go on to never hit another over-the-fence HR throughout youth baseball.

This doesn't haunt me, and is actually a pretty cool memory now; but it somewhat applies to this thread.