Benchwarmer Baseball - The Al Gore Cup

Second-Place Showdown

In honor of the 43rd President of the United States (heh, heh, heh), The Al Gore Cup is a forum for teams that finished second and most likely feel that they're more deserving than all of the other first-place teams to be in the championship bracket.

Teams are seeded 1-4 based on regular season records and play a best-of-seven semifinal round followed by another seven game series to crown the winner.

The winner receives a bonus of 1 million Benchwarmer Bucks. The runner-up gets 500,000.

The 200x Entrants (in order of seeding):

Alphaville (87-63) - Closest competition Carlisle ever had - losing out by only 3 games. Last year's Gore champ.

NJ (81-69) - 2nd straight year in the Gore Cup.

London (79-71) - Defending league champ. Out of the main playoff round for the first time ever.

Monrovia (78-72) - Most losses in franchise history last season - rebounded to a 2nd place finsih.

Finals

Game

London vs. Alphaville

	R	H	E
London	3	7	0	Box
Alphaville	5	6	0	Box
WP - Glavine (1-0) LP - Harang (0-1) HR - Lon: Martinez (1), Markakis (1); Alph: Johnson (1), Butler (1), Uggla (1) Alphaville leads 1-0

	R	H	E
London	2	9	0	Box
Alphaville	4	7	0	Box
WP - Burnett (1-0) LP - Webb (0-1) HR - none Alphaville leads 2-0

	R	H	E
Alphaville	1	8	0	Box
London	4	7	0	Box
WP - Hamels (1-0) LP - Perez (0-1) HR - none Alphaville leads 2-1

	R	H	E
Alphaville	2	8	1	Box
London	7	8	1	Box
WP - McGowan (1-0) LP - Gorzelanny (0-1) HR - Alph: Kent (1), Butler (2); Lon: Lee (1) Series tied 2-2

	R	H	E
Alphaville	4	5	0	Box
London	6	11	1	Box
WP - Lon BP (1-0) LP - Arroyo (0-1) HR - Lon: DrRosa (1), Martinez (2) London leads 3-2

	R	H	E
London	3	6	2	Box
Alphaville	0	5	1	Box
WP - Harang (1-1) LP - Alph BP (0-1) HR - Lon: Cabrera (1) London wins 4-2

Semifinals

Game

Semifinal One

Semifinal Two

	R	H	E
Monrovia	2	3	2	Box
Alphaville	8	15	2	Box
WP - Glavine (1-0) LP - Matsuzaka (0-1) HR - Mon: Gonzalez (1); Alph: Glaus (1), Posada 2 (2) Alphaville leads 1-0

	R	H	E
London	9	8	0	Box
NJ	7	14	1	Box
WP - Lon BP (1-0) LP - Peavy (0-1) HR - Lon: Greene (1); NJ: Youkilis (1), Piazza (1) London leads 1-0

	R	H	E
Monrovia	3	7	2	Box
Alphaville	7	13	1	Box
WP - Burnett (1-0) LP - Penny (0-1) HR: Mon: Young (1), Cabrera (1); Alph: Jones (1), Posada (3) Alphaville leads 2-0

Extra Innings	R	H	E
London	4	11	0	Box
NJ	3	11	0	Box
WP - Webb (1-0) LP - NJ BP (0-1) HR - Lon: Cabrera (1), Markakis (1); NJ: Cano (1) London leads 2-0

	R	H	E
Alphaville	5	11	0	Box
Monrovia	4	8	0	Box
WP - Perez (1-0) LP - Mon BP (0-1) HR: Alph: Kent (1); Mon: Teixeira (1) Alphaville leads 3-0

	R	H	E
NJ	2	5	0	Box
London	5	6	0	Box
WP - Lon BP (2-0) LP - DiNardo (0-1) HR - none London leads 3-0

	R	H	E
Alphaville	10	15	0	Box
Monrovia	2	6	3	Box
WP - Gorzelanny (1-0) LP - Mon BP (0-2) HR - Alph: Blake (1), Butler (1), Jones (2), Posada (4) Alphaville wins 4-0

	R	H	E
NJ	1	8	2	Box
London	7	14	0	Box
WP - McGowan (1-0) LP - Kendrick (0-1) NJ: Beltran (1), Guillen (1); Lon: Martinez (1), Thome (1) London wins 4-0