Carl Crawford had absolutely no idea where this line drive went

Opening Day is as good a time as any to remember that baseballs are small -- approximately 9 inches in circumference small. Considering the outfield at Petco Park is many thousands of inches wide and the expanse above expands upward into the sky (and, if you keep going, outer space), it's a wonder how more outfielders don't simply lose the ball like Carl Crawford during the third inning of Monday's Dodgers-Padres game.
Because he clearly had no idea where the ball that Jon Jay hit went, throwing his arms up as if to say "How on Earth am I supposed to pick out a 9-inch object against all of this wild blue yonder and the sun shining so bright?"

Crawford's momentary lapse of baseball location skills let Jay reach base with a single, but no harm was done -- one batter later, he nabbed Derek Norris' line drive for the third out of the inning.
"Everybody says I would have caught it, but where I was I don't think so," Crawford told MLB.com's Ken Gurnick after the game. "I just didn't see it."
That's just how it goes with these wily baseballs. Sometimes you know exactly where they are, and sometimes you have not a clue.