New York Daily News

MOTOR CITY MADNESS!

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TLet’she Yankees and Tigers turned Comerica Park into Detroit Rock City on Thursday when three bench-clearing brawls led to a total of eight ejections. look at the fight from all angles:

When the Tigers come to Yankee Stadium to start a three-game series on July 31, a game in which the Yankees won, 7-3, Mikie Mahtook is hit by a Luis Severino pitch in the second and then gets beaned by a 98mph fastball from Tommy Kahnle (more on him later) in the sixth. The impact knocks Mahtook’s helmet off his head and sends him sprawling to the ground, but apparently it is a glancing blow. Mahtook pops right up and yells twice in frustratio­n, then walks to first base and virtually ignores a trainer who came out to check on him.

In the Tigers dugout, Miguel Cabrera (more on him) is seen yelling at his teammates to stand up for each other and retaliate. Michael Fulmer — must have been listening — because he hits Jacoby Ellsbury in the bottom of the seventh inning. More background: In Game 2, Anibal Sanchez hits Chase Headley in the Tigers’ 4-3 win. In Game 3, Jordan Zimmerman hits Gary Sanchez.

Sanchez, who goes 7-for-15 with 9 RBI and three homers in series, clocks his third blast Thursday against Fulmer in the supposed to stand there and take a punch. Stupid.”

Miggy takes swing at Romine, who dumps slugger on his butt and the two end up rolling around at home plate, Sanchez — who will certainly be suspended for his actions — goes about dropping bombs on various Tigers, including Cabrera and Nick Castellano­s, and David Robertson leads the charge of the Yankee bullpen brigade. Cabrera and Romine both get ejected.

The bad blood continues in the seventh, when Dellin Betances fires a 98-mph fastball off the helmet of James McCann. You can argue on his intent, and Betances seems to plead to the umps that he was throwing an off-speed pitch, which would have been the fastest in baseball history. Torres, who continues to have a rough, rough day at the dish, doesn’t immediatel­y toss Betances, who is kicked out after Detroit manager Brad Ausmus pleads his case to crew chief Dana Demuth.

Betances: “Obviously, the ball slipped out of my hand. That is the last thing I wanted to do. I felt like at that point everything was over.” Oh far from it, Dellin! Rob Thomson, who takes over for Girardi, gets tossed arguing the Betances ejection. Then in the eighth, Tiger reliever Alex Wilson hits Todd Frazier, which sends the

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