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League Gives Ashpenaz Suspension: Hassle an umpire and you will have to pay the consequences. Just ask Olympia third baseman Meshach Ashpenaz. He argued to excess over a third strike yesterday in the Olympia-Tacoma game at Ballpark of Tacoma. Today the league office notified Ashpenaz that he had been given a 3-game suspension for his egregious conduct. Luckily the Ogres manager and the bench coach intervened physically and removed him from the field. Otherwise it might have gotten even worse. %0A%0AAshpenaz is presently hitting at a .281 pace with 8 home runs and 48 RBIs. He has played in 85 games and scored 47 times. %0A