HOUSTON — In a room packed with reporters and Major League Baseball officials Saturday afternoon, commissioner Rob Manfred used the phrase “no place in our game” as he took the bold action of suspending Yuli Gurriel for the first five games of next season as discipline for the Astros first baseman’s racist gesture and questionable language during World Series Game 3 on Friday night.

Kudos to the commish. He navigated multiple competing agendas under a huge time crunch and came up with a solution that is more than palatable. It’s sizeable, and, in these times when sensitivity somehow gets viewed by many as a weakness, it sends a warm, welcoming message to demographic groups that baseball needs to engage as it works to grow moving forward.

Yet if there’s “no place in our game” for Gurriel’s wrongdoing, then how exactly does Chief Wahoo still have an invitation to the party?

As Manfred cleans up the game from prejudices, he needs to clean up his own house, too. If Gurriel’s “slant-eyed” gesture after homering off the Dodgers’ Yu Darvish was rightly condemned as an offensive racist caricature, then why should we regard the Indians’ logo — a stupidly grinning, red-faced Native American — any differently?

“I see a difference between behavior from one player directed specifically at a player and a logo,” Manfred said. “While both are problematic, I don’t see them as the same issue. We continue to have conversations with the Indians about the logo, and it’s an issue I intend to deal with in the offseason.”

He had best do that. Gosh, would baseball have egg on its face if the 2018 season launches with Gurriel on the sidelines and Chief Wahoo loving life at Progressive Field.

We all know what the difference is: The former matter involves players acting badly and the latter concerns owners. Manfred works with, and occasionally against, the players. He works for the owners. It makes for a greater challenge, though Manfred showed in the Cardinals-Astros hacking scandal that he can handle this tougher assignment.

Bud Selig anointed Manfred as his successor, and the owners ultimately supported that notion, in large part because of Manfred’s ability to keep the trains running on time. Manfred has lived up to that label, hammering out a labor agreement with the players and launching a domestic-violence program that has consistently negotiated fair penalties, without the players feeling compelled to appeal them, for high-profile players such as the Yankees’ Aroldis Chapman and the Mets’ Jeurys Familia and Jose Reyes.

This time, with less than 24 hours to come to a resolution, the commissioner’s office, the Players Association and the Astros huddled and negotiated. Athletics outfielder Matt Joyce and Blue Jays outfielder Kevin Pillar both drew two-game suspensions this year for uttering gay slurs, so the idea of an immediate two-game suspension for Gurriel was floated. The Astros, focused on their championship efforts, opposed that most adamantly.

They all landed on the five-game suspension starting next year so that this year’s Fall Classic wouldn’t be impacted, and look: It’s not as if Gurriel’s transgression gave the Astros a competitive advantage. Manfred also mentioned that a regular-season suspension carries with it lost pay, and Gurriel will donate the $385,026.74 to the Astros Donation and a charity supporting diversity efforts.

“It’s very personal for me, with Dave Roberts [Dodgers manager, whose mother is Japanese] and his family heritage and Yu,” Astros manager A.J. Hinch said. “We had Nori Aoki on this team earlier this season, and we know how diverse our sport is. And so we support everything that’s right about this game, and we’ll move forward, if everyone will allow us to.”

Eloquently stated. And precisely why Chief Wahoo needs to go, too. Why alienate Native Americans just to satiate some stick-in-the-mud fans who refuse to acknowledge how their “tradition” hurts others?

Some moron out there invented the term “snowflake” to deride those who display empathy. Baseball, by coming down hard on Gurriel, put itself on the right side of this cultural divide. On deck, Chief Wahoo. Here’s hoping he gets retired this offseason as swiftly as a three-pitch strikeout.