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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 2007 Entrants (in order of seeding):

  • San Antonio (81-69) - Hanging tight all season, a great Week 25 brought them within 1 game of the division lead by Game 149.  They finished in 4th last season.
  • St. Paul (77-73) - Two seasons, two 2nd place finishes to Moscow.
  • Jersey Boardwalk (75-75) - A 16-game improvement over 2006 and a jump from 4th to 2nd.
  • Canberra (72-78) - Last year's Gore Cup Champion, when the team was under different ownership and known as WV.

Semifinals - Canberra vs San Antonio; Jersey Boardwalk vs St. Paul

 

Finals - Jersey Boardwalk vs San Antonio - San Antonio won the season series 4-2

2007 Gore Cup Winner - Jersey Boardwalk in 4 Games

 

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Finals

Game Jersey Boardwalk vs. San Antonio

1

  R H E  
Jersey Boardwalk 4 9 0

Box

San Antonio 3 5 0
WP - Escobar (1-0)  LP - Penny (0-1)

HR - SA: Beltran (1)

Jersey Boardwalk leads 1-0

2

  R H E  
Jersey Boardwalk 9 9 2

Box

San Antonio 8 7 3
WP - JB BP (1-0)  LP - Capuano (0-1)

HR - JB: Pena (1); SA: Berkman (1)

Jersey Boardwalk leads 2-0

3

  R H E  
San Antonio 5 11 0

Box

Jersey Boardwalk 7 8 0
WP - Hernandez (1-0)  LP - Shields (0-1)

HR - SA: Berkman (2), Thome (1), Beltran (2); JB: Butler (1), Blake (1)

Jersey Boardwalk leads 3-0

4

  R H E  
San Antonio 5 8 1

Box

Jersey Boardwalk 6 5 0
WP - JB BP (2-0)  LP - Maine (0-1)

HR - SA: Beltran (3), Scott (1), Snyder (1); JB: Loney (1)

Jersey Boardwalk wins 4-0

   


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Semifinals

Game Semifinal One Semifinal Two

1

  R H E  
Canberra 9 8 2

Box

San Antonio 4 10 0
WP - Oswalt (1-0)  LP - Penny (0-1)

HR - Can: Ortiz (1), Gonzalez (1), Pence 2 (2); SA: Beltran (1)

Canberra leads 1-0

  R H E  
Jersey Boardwalk 9 12 1

Box

St. Paul 6 8 0
WP - JB BP (1-0)  LP - Santana (0-1)

HR - JB: Pena 2 (2), Rowand (1);

Jersey Boardwalk leads 1-0

2

  R H E  
Canberra 4 9 2

Box

San Antonio 7 6 1
WP - Capuano (1-0)  LP - Lowe (0-1)

HR - Can: Pence (3); SA: Thome (1)

Series tied 1-1

  R H E  
Jersey Boardwalk 7 17 0

Box

St. Paul 4 6 1
WP - JB BP (2-0)  LP - StP BP (0-1)

HR - JB: Pena 2 (4), Butler (1), Varitek (1)

Jersey Boardwalk leads 2-0

3

Extra Innings R H E  
San Antonio 4 14 0

Box

Canberra 5 7 2
WP - Wainwright (1-0)  LP - SA BP (0-1)

HR - Can: Rodriguez 2 (2), Gonzalez (2)

Canberra leads 2-1

  R H E  
St. Paul 3 13 3

Box

Jersey Boardwalk 5 9 0
WP - Hernandez (1-0)  LP - Peavy (0-1)

HR - StP: Guillen (1); JB: Butler (2)

Jersey Boardwalk leads 3-0

4

  R H E  
San Antonio 7 10 0

Box

Canberra 4 11 0
WP - Maine (1-0)  LP - Marquis (0-1)

HR - SA: Kemp (1)

Series tied 2-2

  R H E  
St. Paul 1 9 0

Box

Jersey Boardwalk 5 11 0
WP - Carmona (1-0)  LP - Lincecum (0-1)

HR - StP: Ramirez (1); JB: Lowell (1), Pena (5)

Jersey Boardwalk wins 4-0

5

  R H E  
San Antonio 8 13 0

Box

Canberra 6 11 0
WP - Saunders (1-0)  LP - Wolf (0-1)

HR - Can: Ortiz (2), Dunn (1)

San Antonio leads 3-2

 

6

  R H E  
Canberra 6 13 2

Box

San Antonio 5 11 0
WP - Can BP (1-0)  LP - SA BP (0-2)

HR - Can: Rodriguez (3), Posada (1); SA: Thome (2)

Series tied 3-3

 

7

  R H E  
Canberra 2 8 1

Box

San Antonio 5 6 0
WP - Capuano (2-0)  LP - Lowe (0-2)

HR - SA: Kubel (1), Johjima (1)

San Antonio wins 4-3

 
     



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