■ White Sox reliever Cordero gets 3-game suspension.

Jimmy Cordero said he didn’t intentionally hit the Cubs’Willson Contreras with a pitch Friday.

Major League Baseball did not agree. The White Sox reliever was suspended for three games and fined an undisclosed amount for beaning Contreras in the seventh inning Friday at Guaranteed Rate Field. The Sox announced Cordero is appealing the suspension.

Sox manager Rick Renteria was suspended for one game for Cordero’s “intentional actions,” according to anMLBrelease announcing the news Saturday. Renteria served 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 followit. …

“We stated our case. We explained it wasn’t something that we were looking to do, and it happened. But again, it’s in their judgment. It’s the protocol that they have in place, sowe just abide by it.”

Renteria and pitching coach Don Cooper, who were both ejected from the game along with Cordero, were fined an undisclosed amount.

Contreras hit a three-run homer off Dylan Cease in the third inning Friday in a 10-0 Cubs rout. Contreras flipped his bat high into the air as he started making his way around the bases.

Cordero plunked Contreraswith a sinker on the second pitch of the seventh-inning at-bat.

“I had just come into the game to do my job,” Cordero said after Friday’s game. “It was just … a bad pitch to him.”

Cordero said he was surprised by the ejection.

“I wasn’t ready for that,” he said. “I was thinking, ‘They can’t take me out of the game for a bad pitch.’ ”

With the appeal, the suspension would be pushed to the 2021 regular season, according to the Sox. Cordero, 1-2 with a 5.61 ERA, leads the pitching staff with 29 appearances.

Cubs manager David Ross addressed the incident Saturday, saying he thought MLB reacted appropriately.

“I don’t know any manager that would really admit to throwing at a player,” Ross said. “As a manager just being in the seat, if a player throws at a guy, whether it slipped or didn’t, there’s noway to really knowthat, in my seat.

“I know how it looks. I think Ricky knows how it looks, and Major League Baseball knows how it looks, and it was really bad. So they did their job and we’ll move on.”