behind the eight ball

But in a four-run, four-inning start, Gonsolin was derailed by his own physical issue, battling a bloody thumb in a three-run first inning that put the Dodgers behind the eight ball.

A day never passed without me fully aware that we now lived our lives squarely behind the eight ball.

“The ideal would be to alert them well before embers actually start falling,” he said, “because once that happens, you know you’re already behind the eight ball.”

“It has hurt our snowpack by not adding to it. So we’re behind the eight ball throughout the state.”

County is “behind the eight ball on that.”