Ohlendorf, Price suspended after beanfest with Pirates

Cincinnati Reds right-hander Ross Ohlendorf received a three-game suspension Friday for hitting David Freese with a pitch in the ninth inning of Wednesday's heated affair with the Pittsburgh Pirates, while manager Bryan Price landed a one-game ban and an undisclosed fine for his role in the hostilities.

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Ohlendorf, responsible for the sixth hit-by-pitch in Wednesday's 5-4 loss at Great American Ball Park (and fourth by a Reds pitcher), is appealing his suspension, but Price will serve his punishment and sit out Friday's series opener against the Philadelphia Phillies at Citizens Bank Park. Both were ejected after the 33-year-old reliever hit Freese with a 94-mph fastball with one out in the ninth after warnings had been issued.

"I didn't really have a beef with the ejection, because after all the hit-by-pitches, at some point in time he's got to run somebody out of there," Price told MLB.com's Mark Sheldon.

According to Ohlendorf, though, hitting Freese was unintentional.

"(The home plate umpire) warned me when I came in. He just made sure I knew," Ohlendorf said. "Then it went completely out of my mind until after I hit him. I was not trying to hit him. It was an accident. It was unfortunate that it happened, and JC (Ramirez) had to come in, but he did a great job."