boot one

English edit

(baseball, slang) To make a mistake.
- 1998, Eliot Asinof, Man on Spikes, page 68:
  […] to jeer at him when he booted one or fanned with a crucial run on base.
- 2002, Brooke Horvath, Tim Wiles, Line Drives: 100 Contemporary Baseball Poems, page 92:
  […] he played short with sweet ease, and looked good even when he booted one, […]