DETROIT — The main event of this overloaded fight card occurred right at home plate Thursday afternoon at Comerica Park. It starred a slam-dunk Hall of Famer, a guy who already has Yankees fans fantasizing about his own day in Cooperstown and a man whose family treats baseball the way western Pennsylvania families used to look at the local steel mill.
It featured insults, profanity, a cheap shot and an ex post facto questioning of tactics. It will result in a mountain of discipline, to be announced as soon as Friday.
In the bottom of the sixth inning, Tigers legend Miguel Cabrera and Yankees backup catcher Austin Romine kicked off the first of three bench-clearing brawls.