Sadder Than Sad

Shannon Stone took his son to a ballgame last night to see the Rangers host the Athletics. The 39-year old firefighter never expected to die.
When the Rangers Josh Hamilton grabbed a foul ball that caromed to him in left field, he never expected the ramifications when he tossed the ball into the stands. Who could have?
Stone reached over the railing in left field and, in his exuberance, reached out too far and fell 20-feet to the ground, behind the scoreboard. He died an hour later.
His fellow firefighters will rally around Stone's family. That's what they do. But how Stone died is inconceivable. He died not trying to save someone in a fire but at a baseball game.
Sometimes people do stupid things at ballgames. They drink too much and make a bad decision. At Coors Field earlier this year a young man made a horrible choice when he slid down the railing of a staircase. He fell and hit his head on the cement and died the next day. We've heard stories of people being drunk and doing dangerous things.
Not the case here. Simply a guy reaching for a ball, probably to give to his son, and a horrific accident took place. Heartbreaking beyond belief.
May the Stone family find comfort somehow in this tragedy.
And hopefully Josh Hamilton will not blame himself for an act of kindness that turned terribly wrong.
I'm just really perplexed why and how something like this could happen. Sad, very sad.