fumble

(sports) dropping the ball

feel about uncertainly or blindly; "She groped for her glasses in the darkness of the bedroom"

make one's way clumsily or blindly; "He fumbled towards the door"

handle clumsily

make a mess of, destroy or ruin; "I botched the dinner and we had to eat out"; "the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement"

drop or juggle or fail to play cleanly a grounder; "fumble a grounder"