Orioles' Buck Showalter Involved in Shouting Match with Yankees' Joe Girardi

Apparently it's not only players who can cause benches to clear on the baseball diamond. 

During Monday night's AL East battle between the Baltimore Orioles and New York Yankees, Buck Showalter had to be restrained after engaging in a shouting match with Joe Girardi. 

The Baltimore Sun's Eduardo A. Encina provides a look at the altercation, which happened between innings:

MLB.com has video of the incident as well, which shows both coaches' emotions running high (especially Showalter):

Although the reason for the scuffle wasn't immediately known, the New York Post's Joel Sherman shares a couple of details about how it started:

WNST 1570 AM in Baltimore provides further insight on the possible cause:

After Baltimore's 4-2 win, Showalter talked about the incident (via Brittany Ghiroli of Orioles.com): 

Nothing immediately noticeable happened in the first inning that would have caused hostility between the teams. 

Alex Rodriguez hit a solo home run in the top of the first, and the Orioles tied things up when Adam Jones hit a sacrifice fly in the bottom half of the inning to score Nick Markakis.

This was the first game of the four-game series, and the teams last played on Sept. 1. It's certainly understandable to see why tensions were high. 

With less than a month to go in the regular season, Baltimore is currently just 1.5 games behind the Tampa Bay Rays for the second AL wild-card spot, while New York sits three games back.