DETROIT — Just as the Yankees thought they might keep beating up on the Tigers and get out of town, their series finale on Thursday devolved into a bench-clearing brawl, two on-field stare-downs, four hit batters — including one who took a 98-mile-an-hour fastball to the head — and the ejections of eight players and coaches.

If that did not leave the Yankees sore enough, they also lost the game, 10-6.

The flash point of the tension was a fight between Yankees catcher Austin Romine and the Tigers star Miguel Cabrera that touched off a full-scale brawl between the teams. Cabrera went chest to chest with Romine before shoving him, sparking a wild exchange of punches and wrestling matches near the plate. Both Cabrera and Romine were ejected, but the trouble did not end there.

An inning later, Yankees reliever Dellin Betances — one pitch into his appearance — hit Tigers catcher James McCann in the head with his second, a fastball that clanged off the side of McCann’s helmet. Betances, emphatically professing his innocence in what was then a tie game, was also ejected — joining a group of Yankees that eventually included pitcher Tommy Kahnle, Manager Joe Girardi and the bench coach Rob Thomson.

Cabrera, pitcher Alex Wilson (who hit the Yankees’ Todd Frazier in the eighth) and Manager Brad Ausmus (tossed with Wilson) were ejected for the Tigers.