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.

Finals

Game

New York vs. Andover

	R	H	E
New York	8	8	2	Box
Andover	1	5	0	Box
WP - Lieber (1-0) LP - Bedard (0-1) HR - NY: Blalock (1), Hall (1); And: Thome (1) New York leads 1-0

	R	H	E
New York	4	9	1	Box
Andover	2	5	5	Box
WP - Webb (1-0) LP - And BP (0-1) HR - NY: Rios (1), Everett (1); And: Lee (1) New York leads 2-0

	R	H	E
Andover	4	13	2	Box
New York	5	14	0	Box
WP - Wang (1-0) LP - And BP (0-2) HR - And: Jones (1); NY: Overbay (1) New York leads 3-0

Extra Innings	R	H	E
Andover	6	13	1	Box
New York	5	14	1	Box
WP - Bonderman (1-0) LP - Francis (0-1) HR - NY: Crawford (1), Jenkins (1) New York leads 3-1

	R	H	E
Andover	3	9	1	Box
New York	1	8	1	Box
WP - Nolasco (1-0) LP - NY BP (0-1) HR - none New York leads 3-2

Extra Innings	R	H	E
New York	4	10	1	Box
Andover	5	8	1	Box
WP - Bedard (1-1) LP - NY BP (0-2) HR - NY: Blalock (2) Series tied 3-3

Extra Innings	R	H	E
New York	4	7	3	Box
Andover	3	7	2	Box
WP - Webb (2-0) LP - And BP (0-3) HR - NY: Drew 2 (2), Hall (2) New York wins 4-3

Semifinals

Game

Semifinal One

Semifinal Two

	R	H	E
New York	5	14	0	Box
Mudville	4	3	0	Box
WP - NY BP (1-0) LP - Mud BP (0-1) HR - NY: Crawford (1), Rios (1) New York leads 1-0

	R	H	E
Uptown	11	10	0	Box
Andover	3	9	5	Box
WP - Willis (1-0) LP - Bedard (0-1) HR - Upt: Glaus (1), Wilson (1), Lopez (1); And: Lee (1) Uptown leads 1-0

Extra Innings	R	H	E
New York	5	10	0	Box
Mudville	4	7	0	Box
WP - NY BP (2-0) LP - Schmidt (0-1) HR - none New York leads 2-0

	R	H	E
Uptown	5	6	2	Box
Andover	8	10	1	Box
WP - And BP (1-0) LP - Hernandez (0-1) HR - And: Atkins (1), Lee (2) Series tied 1-1

	R	H	E
Mudville	3	7	0	Box
New York	5	8	0	Box
WP - NY BP (3-0) LP - Harang (0-1) HR - none New York leads 3-0

	R	H	E
Andover	7	9	1	Box
Uptown	6	6	2	Box
WP - And BP (2-0) LP - Sabathia (0-1) HR - And: Ordonez (1), Giles (1) Andover leads 2-1

	R	H	E
Mudville	12	14	1	Box
New York	5	3	2	Box
WP - Mud BP (1-1) LP - Francis (0-1) HR - Mud: Ortiz (1), Ibanez (1), Tejada 2 (2), Hawpe (1); NY: Rios (2) New York leads 3-1

	R	H	E
Andover	8	13	0	Box
Uptown	4	13	0	Box
WP - Bonderman (1-0) LP - Vazquez (0-1) HR - And: Jones (1); Upt: Griffey (1) Andover leads 3-1

	R	H	E
Mudville	6	16	1	Box
New York	7	12	0	Box
WP - Milton (1-0) LP - Ramirez (0-1) HR - Mud: Tejada (3); NY: Drew (1) New York wins 4-1

	R	H	E
Andover	6	9	1	Box
Uptown	11	11	0	Box
WP - Park (1-0) LP - Nolasco (0-1) HR - And: Atkins (2), LaRoche 2 (2); Upt: Young (1), Griffey (2), Tracy (1) Andover leads 3-2

	R	H	E
Uptown	6	8	1	Box
Andover	4	5	2	Box
WP - Upt BP (1-0) LP - And BP (2-1) HR - Upt: Young (2), Griffey (3); And: Ordonez (2) Series tied 3-3

	R	H	E
Uptown	4	6	0	Box
Andover	5	6	1	Box
WP - Glavine (1-0) LP - Hernandez (0-2) HR - Upt: Hafner (1); And; Atkins (3) Andover wins 4-3