DETROIT — Detroit Tigers slugger Miguel Cabrera — under fire for a weekend of bad baseball and what police describe as heavy drinking at a suburban Detroit hotel and a scuffle with his wife — now has to answer for a second bizarre incident at the hotel.

A police report released late Monday quotes witnesses as saying an erratic Cabrera taunted an overweight, 15-year-old boy at the Townsend Hotel in Birmingham, Mich., in late August and had to be escorted out. One witness said Cabrera “acted as if he was on some drug” during the outburst; witnesses said the confrontation grew so heated that he challenged the teen’s table to a fight outside and implied he had a gun there.
The August incident prompted Tigers President Dave Dombrowski and the team’s legal counsel to meet with Cabrera, the report said. Dombrowki “told Cabrera not to frequent” the Townsend again, the report stated, citing a text message from a Tigers security official.
Late Monday, Dombrowski, who is in Minnesota for the Tigers showdown today with the Twins, denied telling Cabrera to avoid the Townsend.
Dombrowski would not comment on whether a meeting took place and said the rest of the police report on the August incident was not entirely accurate. He would not elaborate on either police incident.
Cabrera, too, remained largely silent Monday about the incident with his wife Saturday that has engulfed the Tigers in controversy on the eve of their most important game all season. He did issue a statement asking for privacy and apologizing to teammates and fans for any “distraction.”
The two incidents — roughly five weeks apart — have much in common.
Both followed tough losses in which Cabrera, an elite hitter, did not perform well. In both episodes, Cabrera apparently went to the Townsend to meet up with friends on the visiting team who were staying at the hotel.
Friday night, Cabrera went 0-for-4 against the Chicago White Sox as the Tigers sought to clinch the American League Central Division title. After the game, police said, Cabrera went to the Townsend to party late with some Sox players.
That did not seem to sit well with his wife, Rosangel Cabrera, who told police her husband loudly returned to their Birmingham home around dawn, waking up the couple’s 4-year-old daughter.
Things got ugly from there, according to police. Rosangel Cabrera, also 26, called 911 at 6:05 a.m., sobbing into the phone that her husband had struck her. “I need help, please,” she pleaded. Police arrived to find her with an injured lip and Miguel Cabrera with scratches along the left side of his face.
Cabrera’s wife insisted he leave the home and he agreed. Officers drove him to the station.
Miguel Cabrera — “very uncooperative and highly intoxicated,” according to the police report — had a 0.26 blood-alcohol level on a portable breathalyzer, more than three times the legal limit to drive.
After investigators determined both Cabreras were aggressors in the situation, Patterson said, the player was released. Dombrowski, the Tigers executive, picked Cabrera up at the station between 7:30 and 8 a.m. Saturday.
“We were just making sure we’re in the right range to turn him over to an official from the Tigers and he wasn’t in any medical danger,” police Cmdr. Mark Clemence said Monday of releasing Cabrera to Dombrowski. He added that people who test at a 0.35 blood-alcohol level are taken to a hospital as a medical precaution.
Police said they found a damaged cell phone in the home; a gold chain Miguel Cabrera wears around his neck was broken, too. But when officers asked the couple what happened, neither would explain, according to the report.
In the earlier incident, police said they were called to the Townsend’s Rugby Grille at 6:30 p.m. Aug. 31, hours after the Tigers dropped a day game to Tampa Bay, 11-7. Cabrera had one hit and left three men on base.
According to the report, Aaron Cohen of Birmingham recognized Cabrera sitting at the bar and said hello. At first the player was pleasant, asking Cohen if he wanted something to eat. Cabrera, who witnesses said was drinking from a large cup, then gestured at the teen sitting with Cohen, saying “What’s up, big boy, you need to work out.”
When the boy took offense, Cohen said, he tried to stop the situation from escalating, but Cabrera became belligerent. Cabrera started to “rant and rave,” according to the report, and said, “You don’t know me or where I am from.” He then continued, “Let’s go, right now” and “I’ll fight both of you right now; let’s go outside.”
The report said Cabrera then started swearing and “speaking to himself with his head up in the air,” as if in prayer. He said, “Let’s go outside, I have a Land Rover and I’ll get my ’click clack,’ “ motioning the racking of a gun, according to investigators.
Two restaurant workers finally convinced Cabrera to leave.
One employee, a bartender, said she thought Cabrera, who usually visited another bar at the Townsend, was there that evening to visit players on the Cleveland Indians, the Tigers’ next opponent.
The police report said that Tigers security chief Richard Fenton later sent police a text describing how Cabrera conceded to team officials he had been out of line and blamed his conduct on his poor performance against Tampa Bay and “marital issues.” Fenton said he had checked Cabrera’s vehicle and found no weapon.
The police troubles came to light within days after Cabrera showed up for Saturday’s game with abrasions on his face; he blamed his dog.
The Tigers lost 5-1 Saturday night to the Chicago White Sox. Cabrera went 0-for-4. They won 5-3 Sunday.
Upon arriving with the team at its Minneapolis-area hotel Monday, Cabrera said he wouldn’t comment beyond his statement, but added, “I think everything is going to be fine. I have to focus for the game.”
Peter Wilde, managing director of the Townsend Hotel, said there would be no comment from the hotel.
“Really, we have what you would consider a long-standing policy not to reveal the identity of our hotel guests or anything that goes on in the hotel,” Wilde said.

(Detroit Free Press staff writers Michael Rosenberg, John Lowe and Ben Schmitt contributed to this report.)