Suspension week continues as Matt Carpenter will sit for a game after he bumped an ump:

Cardinals first baseman Matt Carpenter was suspended for Tuesday night’s game against the Toronto Blue Jays for making contact with an umpire in Sunday’s game after being ejected for arguing a called third strike.

Carpenter elected to serve the suspension Tuesday rather than appeal. He and the Cardinals weren’t aware he had bumped umpire John Tumpane until the ruling came down from MLB discipline czar Joe Torre.

“That was the first I’d heard about the contact,” Cardinals manager Mike Matheny said. “I didn’t watch it close enough. I watched the pitches that led up to it. It was pretty clear that if you made contact, it was going to be a day, so the benefit we can take is the extra day to let that finger get some of the pain and swelling out of it.”

So Carpenter might have gotten the day off anyway.

I’m old enough to remember when The Bump as a big dance craze. I did not remember this song, however, until I heard it on an American Top 40 rebroadcast from 1975 over the weekend.