Chicago White Sox reliever Jimmy Cordero was suspended for three games and fined an undisclosed amount for hitting the Cubs' Willson Contreras with a pitch in the seventh inning of Friday’s City Series game at Guaranteed Rate Field.
Sox manager Rick Renteria was suspended for one game for Cordero’s “intentional actions,” according to a Major League Baseball release announcing the news Saturday. Renteria will serve his suspension Saturday.
“They did what they had to do,” Renteria said when asked about the suspension. "They have a protocol that they instituted this year and they’re trying to stay consistent and follow it.