AL RECAP (DETROIT-CLEVELAND) CLEVELAND (Ticker) -- Jeff Weaver again showed he is not going to let the hard-hitting Cleveland Indians intimidate him. The Detroit Tigers' rookie righthander beat baseball's best team for the second time in a week, allowing one run and six hits over six innings in a 6-2 victory that included a bench-clearing brawl in the bottom of the sixth. Cleveland's Manny Ramirez charged the mound after being hit in the head by Weaver and the benches and bullpens emptied. Ramirez, the major league leader in RBI with 56, was ejected after order was restored. "Manny Ramirez is an All-Star player," Weaver said. "I was just trying to run one in and it got away from me. No pitcher is going to the head and nobody wants to hurt anyone. I was working away and I dropped down and it got away from me. Ramirez had both hands up and the next thing I saw was that he was coming after me." The Indians, however, were convinced the pitch was intentional. "It was obvious that he was trying to hit Manny. It was obvious from some of the things that were said on the field," said Cleveland manager Mike Hargrove, who would not repeat what was actually said. The Indians also claim that Detroit manager Larry Parrish tackled Cleveland starter Jaret Wright, who may have ignited the hard feelings by hitting Tony Clark in the head in the top of the sixth. "I went out there to help Manny and I believe Larry Parrish grabbed me from behind and pretty much tackled me to the ground, which I thought was completely classless," Wright said. "I don't think a manager has any place to grab a player," Cleveland third baseman Travis Fryman added. "It kind of calmed down out there, but Larry Parrish grabbed Jaret around the neck." Weaver (5-3) did not let the incident bother him, powering the Tigers to their third straight victory over the Indians, who suffered consecutive defeats for only the second time this season. He walked one and struck out two. "The key is to stay down in the zone," said Weaver, who became the first pitcher to defeat the Indians twice this season. "They have a team that hits with a lot of power and you have to stay away from them and make them pop up balls that they try to hit out." The Indians are averaging 7.4 runs per game, but they have been unable to solve Weaver, who recorded a 9-3 victory on Sunday in Detroit. Weaver improved to 3-0 with a 3.18 ERA in three road starts and has allowed only three runs and 10 hits in 12 innings against Cleveland. Cleveland, which also dropped two straight at Boston on April 24-25, got its only run off Weaver in the third when Omar Vizquel grounded into a double play. The Tigers have won three straight against the Indians for the first time since reeling off four straight wins on May 22-23 and June 13-14, 1993. It marks the first time Detroit has ever won two in a row at Jacobs Field, where the Tigers are just 7-26. The Tigers reached Wright (4-2) for three runs in the top of the sixth. They grabbed a 4-1 lead on Gregg Jefferies' RBI single and a two-run double by Dean Palmer, who added a solo homer off Mark Langston in the eighth. Palmer has 18 homers and 55 RBI in his career against Cleveland. After Palmer homered, Wright hit Clark on a 0-2 offering before getting Gabe Kapler to hit into a force play to end the inning. "I'm not trying to throw at anybody, especially at the head," Wright said. "It was an 0-2 pitch and I threw a high fastball and it got away from me. I'm not out there to throw at people's heads. I'm out there trying to get people out. I really needed an out there." "It wasn't intentional and there are no hard feelings," Clark added. "I know Jaret and that was not intentional." But Hargrove admitted that he is concerned that his righthander may be developing a reputation as "head hunter." "It is a concern that he may be getting a reputation," Hargrove said. "The word is out around the league that Jaret is not afraid to pitch inside. Jaret pitches inside, but you have to do that to be effective." Wright suffered his second straight loss to the Tigers, allowing five runs -- four earned -- and seven hits over 6 1/3 innings. In his two starts against Detroit this season, He has yielded 12 earned runs and 16 hits over 12 innings. After Matt Anderson tossed a scoreless seventh for the Tigers, C.J. Nitkowski was ejected in the bottom of the eighth for throwing his first pitch up and in to Kenny Lofton. Doug Brocail recorded the final six outs, giving up an RBI double to Travis Fryman in the ninth. The Tigers' bullpen has given up just one run and three hits over seven innings in the series. Detroit made it 5-1 in the seventh on Damion Easley's sacrifice fly. The Tigers are 3-2 against the Indians and swept a three-game series against the Yankees in April. "We have played these games with intensity," he said. "We have got to catch it and bottle it, so that when we play other teams, we play with the same fire. We've played these guys and the Yankees toe-to-toe, and that tells you that this club has potential." Vizquel and Detroit's Juan Encarnacion extended their hitting streak to 10 games. --=-=-- 