CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Ernie Banks never said, "Let's play three."

That is, however, what the Lynchburg Hillcats, the Indians' High-A affiliate, were planning to do on Wednesday. Storms wiped away Tuesday's action between Lynchburg and the Potomac Nationals, Washington's affiliate in the Carolina League. The teams never finished Monday's contest, either, because of inclement weather.

So, at 3 p.m. on Wednesday at Calvin Falwell Field in Lynchburg, Virginia, the teams were going to resume Game 1 in the fifth inning. When they completed that contest -- it will go at least nine frames -- they would proceed to play a pair of seven-inning affairs. It would be the first tripleheader on record since at least 1996.

The teams initially opted to squeeze their series into one day because they don't face each other again during the first half of the schedule. The Carolina League splits its season into two stanzas.

Justus Sheffield and Mitch Brown were scheduled to start the final two contests for Lynchburg on Wednesday. The Nationals hold a 4-2 lead in the top of the fifth inning of the suspended game.

According to Baseball-Reference, there is one major league tripleheader on record. On Oct. 2, 1920, the Reds and Pirates completed three games in precisely five hours.

1920: The only tripleheader in this century was played, with the Reds winning 2 of 3 vs the Pirates. — Today in Baseball (@todaysbaseball) October 3, 2014

I feel like I'm 12 again playing on championship Sunday in a triple header today. @MiLB @HillcatBaseball #gocats — Sean Brady (@SeanMBrady8) May 4, 2016

Alas, late Wednesday morning, the teams decided to split up the action. They will play two games on Wednesday and the third on Monday.