Rangers' Gomez questions manhood of Astros' McHugh in postgame tirade

Things got hot in Texas on Monday night.

After the benches of the Houston Astros and Texas Rangers cleared in the second inning following a squabble, Carlos Gomez questioned the manhood of Collin McHugh during a postgame interview.

The altercation in the second inning began after McHugh hurled a pitch high and inside toward the left shoulder of Gomez. Gomez took a big cut at the next pitch and apparently walked too close to McHugh for his liking, which set off an exchange of words between the two players.

"He's not man enough to tell me face to face (that he's going to throw at me), so he tells one of the people who works over there that he's going to hit me," Gomez said, per ABC Dallas' Levi Weaver.

Gomez added: "If you're a real man you tell me to my face, not send me a message. I'm a man, I go out to you personally, and you run away, so what kind of man you are?"

McHugh revealed his side of the story postgame as well.

"The second pitch, he took a big swing and fouled it off and took about five steps out toward the mound, looking me straight in the eye," McHugh told reporters, including MLB.com's Brian McTaggart and Sam Butler. "I just asked him if we had a problem. It was a rhetorical question because, clearly, he's got a problem with me. I don't exactly know what it is, but whatever the case, he came out and I asked him what the issue was and he said, 'Yeah, I got a problem with you.' That was it. Everybody else was out there by that point in time. The game goes on. I don't want to spend any more mental effort thinking about Carlos Gomez."

Gomez, a former teammate of McHugh's with the Astros, had a separate altercation with Lance McCullers Jr. in May and had previously been hit by McHugh in August.