Four ejected for fighting as Indians top Tigers

Violent Is the Word for Gary.

Gary Sheffield was still plenty angry—though much more in control after the Detroit Tigers endured a ninth-inning loss.

Sheffield was one of two players from both teams ejected during a seventh-inning brawl before Jamey Carroll hit a game-winning single with one out in the ninth to give the Cleveland Indians a 6-5 win over the Tigers on Friday night.

...“Just because he’s upset somebody else hit a home run, don’t take it out on me,” Sheffield said. “Anytime you do that, we’re going to have problems, before the game, after the game, whatever you want to do.”

Carmona threw to first on a pickoff attempt. Sheffield motioned, yelled, then charged at him. “He gestured and I was like, ‘Throw the ball to home plate,’ “Sheffield said. “He called me out. He gestured come on, and I’m coming.”

...Sheffield sat calmly at his locker as he spoke, but seemed most irritated at Martinez.

“His act is tired,” Sheffield said of Victor Martinez. “All that macho, throwing your equipment off. All this stuff. Trust me. He doesn’t want any of this. Trust me. If he does, just let me know, man to man and I guarantee he wouldn’t want any more.”

...Sheffield claimed Carmona has hit him three times this year.

“Three strikes and you’re out,” Sheffield said. “And if it’s number four, it gets more violent. Trust me.”