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Ohlendorf wins appeal; 3-game suspension lifted
- Updated: May 23, 2016
LOS ANGELES — Reds right-hander Ross Ohlendorf won an appeal of his three-day suspension and will not have to miss any time for his May 11 hit-by-pitch of Pittsburgh’s David Freese.
Ohlendorf and the Reds’ leadership were able to successfully argue that the right-hander’s fastball got away from him and hit Freese at the wrong time, when both benches were under warning in a game that saw six combined hit batsmen.
“I just explained what happened. I was trying to throw a fastball in and it just hit him. It happens,” Ohlendorf said. “I was optimistic that we’d get the ruling that we did, just because I didn’t mean to hit him and I felt like I was able to state that during the …
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