CINCINNATI — Nolan Arenado and Brandon Barnes collected call-and-response dueling diving catches into the stands Monday at Great American Ballpark.
Barnes in the second dove into the right-field stands to beat a red-clad Reds fan in cargo shorts to a fly ball. It was the second-best diving catch into the stands this season — Arenado's feet-flying dive over the tarp into the stands in left at San Francisco last month remains the standard.
But Arenado bumped Barnes to third-best in the eighth when he tumbled over the wall down the line in left. He hugged the concrete and fell into the peanut shells on the floor and umpire Mike Everitt had to run over to make a call.