These teams have a history, and it boiled over into a shouting match that resulted in Orioles manager Brandon Hyde’s ejection in the ninth inning of Friday’s loss to the New York Yankees.

With rain falling at Camden Yards, Yankees right-hander Clay Holmes lost control of a pitch and hit outfielder Heston Kjerstad on the helmet. As Kjerstad left the game, Hyde turned back toward New York’s dugout, pointing and yelling, before he was held back by catcher Austin Wells.

“I’m reacting to their coaches,” Hyde said, adding that “it’s an emotional time at that time. I got my guy who just got hit right in the ear. I’m upset, and then I see their dugout. They’re waving at me and yelling at me, so I just didn’t appreciate it at the time.”

Hyde was ejected following the fracas, which led to a benches-clearing huddle but didn’t include further issues.

Hyde said Kjerstad is undergoing testing and the manager hopes he’ll be OK.

“It’s unfortunate,” Holmes told media, including USA TODAY, in the visiting clubhouse. “You’re never trying to hit somebody in the head. I hope Heston’s OK from that and all good tomorrow. One of those things where conditions weren’t great. I was trying to throw a front door sinker there, and it just cut. It wasn’t the movement of a normal sinker.”

After hitting Kjerstad, Holmes approached Kjerstad in an attempt “to tell Heston I wasn’t trying to do it,” Holmes said. “I saw Hyde kinda mouthing some stuff. I think some people didn’t like that and things got heated.”

Hyde’s players appreciated seeing their manager stand up for them.

“You never want somebody to get hit,” outfielder Austin Hays said. “You’ve got to look out for your team and you’ve got to look out for your players, and I think that’s what you were seeing there.”

Added utilityman Ryan O’Hearn: “It’s a tight-knit group in here. We all love each other and are going to stick up for each other, and that starts with Hyder.”

Earlier this season, the Yankees took issue with what they deemed to be Baltimore’s pitching approach, after the Orioles hit multiple batters, including Aaron Judge. New York responded by plunking Gunnar Henderson and Colton Cowser the following day, but Baltimore didn’t escalate the situation by hitting additional batters.

“I think there was just some chirping back and forth,” Judge said, according to The Associated Press. “I know we’ve gotten quite a few of their guys with hit by pitches. They’ve gotten us. Kind of boiled over there.”

The ejection comes during an Orioles four-game losing streak that has featured a tepid offensive output.

The benches-clearing incident increases attention on a massive series for both teams. Hays said that, regardless of the hit by pitch, the Orioles and Yankees are battling for the American League East (Baltimore leads by one game). Any game in that setting will be tense.

With the recent offensive slump, O’Hearn hopes to focus instead on run production.

“I would prefer to just play, obviously,” O’Hearn said. “It’s a tough stretch for us. We’re having a hard time scoring runs, and that’s our main focus, so I would hope that we show up trying to win a baseball game and extracurriculars don’t happen.”