blunder

In his statement on Wednesday, he called the Harris campaign's continued support of Israel a blunder.

But then, he suddenly stopped, committing what became a game-changing mental blunder.

My friends in Los Angeles were texting me — the token New York Yankees fan for most of them — as their elation grew, error after Yankees error, mental blunder after mental blunder, leading to greater and greater Dodgers mania.

And the reason why is best illustrated by the Operation Pathway catastrophe blunder of 2009.

Forgotten about this Series, and just as damaging to the Dodgers as Owen’s blunder: Freddie Fitzsimmons was sailing along in Game 3, shutting out the Yankees, when the final out of the seventh — a line drive by Marius Russo — bounced off Fitzsimmons’ leg, breaking his kneecap.