Miguel Cabrera threw haymakers and started an ugly, benches-clearing brawl with the Yankees

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The Detroit Tigers were hosting the New York Yankees in what was by all accounts a fairly normal baseball game on Thursday.

Then, in the sixth inning, Miguel Cabrera stepped up to the plate.

Earlier in the game Gary Sanchez was hit with a ball from Tigers pitcher Michael Fulmer. In retaliation, Yankees pitcher Tommy Kahnle threw a ball behind Cabrera and was promptly ejected from the game, along with manager Joe Girardi after he came out to argue the call.

As Cabrera resettled at the plate, words were exchanged between he and Yankees catcher Austin Romine. Romine ripped his mask off as the two jawed back and forth, and Cabrera pushed him and threw a couple jabs. Romine then attmepted to get Cabrera down to the ground as the benches and bullpens cleared to form one of the largest baseball fights yin recent memory.

You can watch footage of the brawl below, courtesy of MLB.

Both Cabrera and Romine were ejected from the game. In the top of the seventh, the Yankees would tie the game at 6-6. With a tight ballgame now on their hands, you can hope there will be no room to give up free bases for the purposes of retaliation.

This is the final game between the Yankees and Tigers in the 2017 season.