MacKenzie Gore was not happy with Victor Robles' effort on a single to center field in the second inning of St. Louis Cardinals' 9-3 win over the Washington Nationals on Tuesday.

Robles appeared to have a chance at catching a line drive off Jordan Walker's bat but let the ball drop in front of him for a hit.

Dylan Carlson followed with a two-run homer over the center-field wall that gave the Cardinals to a 2-0 lead. MASN picked up the verbal exchange between Gore and Robles in the dugout after the inning concluded.

"They talked about it. We talked about it. It's good. It happens," Dave Martinez said. "We are trying to compete. It happens. I just wanted to make sure that nothing was going to go crazy there in the dugout, so I just got in between them. It was good. Few words were said, and then it was done.

"Obviously, MacKenzie thought he should have caught the ball. I thought he should have caught the ball, but it was windy. I think he thought he was going to catch it easy, and the ball just died on him and he couldn't get there."