Yadier Molina and John Lackey had a heated exchange in the dugout during the St. Louis Cardinals' win over the Minnesota Twins on Monday night.

Television cameras captured Molina and Lackey having the tense conversation after the top of the seventh inning.

Mike Matheny eventually intervened and downplayed the event after the game as an interaction between "two intense guys."

"[Molina and Lackey] have a passion for what they do, and with intensity sometimes comes conflict," Matheny said. "That happens more often than [you realize], and that's just a part of the game."

The incident started because Lackey was verbally berating himself for making a bad pitch, but Molina thought the criticism was directed toward him, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.