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

WV vs. Four

	R	H	E
WV	6	10	0	Box
Four	4	8	2	Box
WP - Oswalt (1-0) LP - Webb (0-1) HR - WV: Posada (1), Gonzalez (1); Four: Hafner (1) WV leads 1-0

	R	H	E
WV	3	10	2	Box
Four	6	9	0	Box
WP - Haren (1-0) LP - Cook (0-1) HR - WV: Gonzalez (2) Series tied 1-1

	R	H	E
Four	3	6	4	Box
WV	7	10	1	Box
WP - Lowe (1-0) LP - Myers (0-1) HR - Four: Hafner (2); WV: Lane (1) WV leads 2-1

Extra Innings	R	H	E
Four	5	11	6	Box
WV	6	8	2	Box
WP - Duke (1-0) LP - Bonderman (0-1) HR - Four: Granderson (1), Bell (1); WV: Ortiz 2 (2), Gonzalez (2) WV leads 3-1

Extra Innings	R	H	E
Four	3	7	0	Box
WV	2	6	2	Box
WP - Verlander (1-0) LP - WV BP (0-1) HR - Four: Alou (1); Lane (2) WV leads 3-2

	R	H	E
WV	9	10	0	Box
Four	5	9	4	Box
WP - WV BP (1-1) LP - Webb (0-2) HR - WV: Ortiz (3), Dunn (1), Encarnacion (1) WV wins 4-2

Semifinals

Game

Semifinal One

Semifinal Two

	R	H	E
St. Paul	8	12	0	Box
Four	0	3	6	Box
WP - Santana (1-0) LP - Webb (0-1) HR - St.P: Cabrera (1) St. Paul leads 1-0

Extra Innings	R	H	E
WV	4	6	0	Box
Andover	5	6	1	Box
WP - Peavy (1-0) LP - Oswalt (0-1) HR - none Andover leads 1-0

Extra Innings	R	H	E
St. Paul	4	9	0	Box
Four	5	8	1	Box
WP - Haren (1-0) LP - StP BP (0-1) HR - StP: Hunter (1), Sexson (1); Four: Weeks (1), McCann (1) Series tied 1-1

	R	H	E
WV	7	9	1	Box
Andover	4	11	2	Box
WP - Cook (1-0) LP - Arroyo (0-1) HR - WV: Ortiz (1); And: Konerko (1) Series tied 1-1

	R	H	E
Four	5	6	0	Box
St. Paul	4	8	0	Box
WP - Myers (1-0) LP - Santos (0-1) HR - Four: Giles (1), Gomes (1); StP: Estrada (1) Four leads 2-1

	R	H	E
Andover	3	5	2	Box
WV	4	8	0	Box
WP - Lowe (1-0) LP - Schmidt (0-1) HR - And: Bay (1) WV leads 2-1

	R	H	E
Four	7	10	0	Box
St. Paul	5	8	0	Box
WP - Bonderman (1-0) LP - Johnson (0-1) HR - Four: Jones (1), Crosby (1), McCann (1); StP: Sexson (2), Hudson (1) Four leads 3-1

	R	H	E
Andover	3	2	4	Box
WV	7	12	1	Box
WP - WV BP (1-0) LP - And BP (0-1) HR - And: Lopez (1); WV: Rodriguez (1) WV leads 3-1

	R	H	E
Four	9	11	4	Box
St. Paul	13	10	0	Box
WP - StP BP (1-1) LP - Verlander (0-1) HR - Four: Drew 2 (2), Martin (1), Jones (2); St.P: Hunter (1), Hudson (2) Four leads 3-2

	R	H	E
Andover	10	15	0	Box
WV	4	6	0	Box
WP - Burnett (1-0) LP - Ohka (0-1) HR - And: Bay (2), Konerko (2), Hawpe (1) WV leads 3-2

	R	H	E
St. Paul	6	4	1	Box
Four	3	9	0	Box
WP - Santana (2-0) LP - Webb (0-2) HR - Four: Hafner (1) Series tied 3-3

	R	H	E
WV	9	12	1	Box
Andover	4	6	4	Box
WP - Oswalt (1-1) LP - Peavy (1-1) HR - WV: Rodriguez 2 (3), Ortiz (2), Dunn (1), Posada (1); And: Lopez (2), Hawpe (2) WV wins 4-2

	R	H	E
St. Paul	4	7	3	Box
Four	8	11	1	Box
WP - Four BP (1-0) LP - Beckett (0-1) HR - St.P: Hudson (3); Four: Hafner (2), Alou (1) Four wins 4-3