Conflicted Feelings

The Good News: the Angels won today. They're now well out of the divisional cellar and they're playing over .500 ball.

The Bad News: Ah, poor Trot Nixon. You gotta feel for him. He'll be hearing about this for the rest of the season. Or maybe his life:

With one out in the top of the ninth, Adam Kennedy on first and Bengie Molina on second, David Eckstein lofted a harmless fly ball to right field that Nixon camped under and caught for the second out.
But Nixon started running back to the dugout as if the inning was over and nonchalantly tossed the ball into the stands to a fan.
Third-base umpire Kerwin Danley waved Molina home from second on a two-base error by Nixon -- as did "the whole dugout," according to Scioscia -- and the Angels added two runs in the prolonged frame.

Deep sympathy. I'm not a math major either.

(You can read about the rest of the game here.)