Forget two games in one day, two MiLB clubs are playing a tripleheader on Wednesday [Update: Not anymore!]
UPDATE: Alas, playing three games in one day is a lot of stress to put on a roster, so the tripleheader is no more.
Fans, in lieu of playing three games in one day, the Major League parent squads, affiliates and the Carolina... https://t.co/nBodscW5Hm
— Lynchburg Hillcats (@LynHillcats) May 4, 2016
The teams worked out an alternative: They'll play two games on Wednesday, finishing one suspended game on Thursday and playing the other postponed contest on Monday. Still a whole lot of baseball.
5/03: On Wednesday, two Class A affiliates will play a LOT of baseball.
Forget about a run-of-the-mill doubleheader ... no, the Potomac Nationals (Washington's Class A Advanced club) and the Lynchburg Hillcats (the Indians' Class A Advanced club) will play THREE games in a single day. Three. 3. One less than four.
Let's Play Three!
— Fredericksburg Nationals (@FXBGNats) May 3, 2016
A postponed DH tonight means it's a tripleheader tomorrow. Yup, 3 games starting at 3:00PMhttps://t.co/tqSfSJ6kP0
You may be wondering why these two clubs are doing this to themselves -- and as you might imagine, it has to do with a doubleheader that didn't happen on Tuesday.
As a result, there will assuredly be some #WEIRDBASEBALL taking place. The first game is the resumption of Monday's rain-shortened contest that had Potomac leading, 4-2, in the top of the fifth. The next two games will each be seven-inning affairs, probably because it'd be impossible to do this any other way.
It's still a tripleheader, and Potomac's website mentions it's the first of its kind on record since 1996.
Because MiLB Twitter accounts are consistently entertaining, Potomac had some fun with the news on Tuesday, retweeting some choice jokes made about the quirky situation:
Even Ernie Banks is like, "That's a lot of baseball." https://t.co/FoD51aLHDB
— Anthony Castrovince (@castrovince) May 3, 2016
Triple header! And almost guaranteed #weirdbaseball. https://t.co/OpX34EbsNr
— [Bochy noises] (@Chris_Sherwood) May 3, 2016
. @EliasSports and @espn, any log of MiLB tripleheaders? The @PNats42 and @HillcatBaseball have one tomorrow!
— Fredericksburg Nationals (@FXBGNats) May 3, 2016
Let's just hope bad weather doesn't rear its ugly head and throw a wrench into all this madness.
