Amazon.com
 
Happy Holidays Guest - Login

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 2016 Entrants (in order of seeding):

  1. Oakland Athletic (82-68)
  2. San Diego (81-69)
  3. High Octane (80-70)
  4. Las Vegas (79-72)

 

Semifinals - Las Vegas vs. Oakland Athletic; High Octane vs. San Diego

 

Oakland Athletic won 4 games to 1

San Diego won 4 games to 1

 

Finals - San Diego vs. Oakland Athletic

Season series: Tied 3-3

2016 Gore Cup Winner - San Diego won 4 games to 1

 

Playoffs main page

Finals

Game San Diego vs. Oakland Athletic

1

 RHE 
San Diego7100

Box

Oakland Athletic260
WP - C.Martinez (1-0) LP - OA BP (0-1)
HR: SD: J.Lucroy (1), M.Kemp (1), A.Lind (1), S.Piscotty (1)
San Diego leads 1-0
 

2

 RHE 
San Diego8122

Box

Oakland Athletic692
WP - J.Lackey (1-0) LP - C.Hamels (0-1)
HR: SD: A.Beltre (1); OA: H.Pence (1), D.Descalso (1)
San Diego leads 2-0
 

3

Extra InningsRHE 
Oakland Athletic5130

Box

San Diego491
WP - OA BP (1-1) LP - SD BP (0-1)
HR: OA: J.Abreu (1), M.Franco (1); SD: J.Soler (1)
San Diego leads 2-1
 

4

 RHE 
Oakland Athletic250

Box

San Diego770
WP - E.Santana (1-0) LP - J.Zimmermann (0-1)
HR: OA: B.Crawford (1); SD: D.Ortiz (1)
San Diego leads 3-1
 

5

 RHE 
Oakland Athletic044

Box

San Diego9100
WP - M.Foltynewicz (1-0) LP - Y.Darvish (0-1)
HR: SD: J.Lucroy (2), A.Lind (2), S.Piscotty (2), N.Walker (1)
San Diego wins series 4-1
 

6

 

7

 
   

 

Semifinals

Game Semifinal One Semifinal Two

1

 RHE 
Las Vegas026

Box

Oakland Athletic6121
WP - M.Bumgarner (1-0) LP - J.Cueto (0-1)
HR: none
Oakland Athletic leads 1-0
 
 RHE 
High Octane590

Box

San Diego6100
WP - C.Martinez (1-0) LP - M.Leake (0-1)
HR: HO: J.Kipnis (1), J.Kang (1); SD: T.Tulowitzki (1), J.Lucroy (1)
San Diego leads 1-0
 

2

 RHE 
Las Vegas3110

Box

Oakland Athletic430
WP - C.Hamels (1-0) LP - J.Lester (0-1)
HR: none
Oakland Athletic leads 2-0
 
 RHE 
High Octane250

Box

San Diego9130
WP - J.Lackey (1-0) LP - C.Friedrich (0-1)
HR: SD: T.Story 2 (2), M.Kemp 2 (2)
San Diego leads 2-0
 

3

 RHE 
Oakland Athletic2100

Box

Las Vegas160
WP - N.Syndergaard (1-0) LP - LV BP (0-1)
HR: OA: N.Arenado (1)
Oakland Athletic leads 3-0
 
 RHE 
San Diego330

Box

High Octane4122
WP - M.Fiers (1-0) LP - D.Smyly (0-1)
HR: HO: P.Goldschmidt (1), T.Joseph (1)
San Diego leads 2-1
 

4

 RHE 
Oakland Athletic252

Box

Las Vegas4111
WP - J.Teheran (1-0) LP - J.Zimmermann (0-1)
HR: OA: M.Franco (1); LV: W.Ramos (1)
Oakland Athletic leads 3-1
 
Extra InningsRHE 
San Diego571

Box

High Octane461
WP - E.Santana (1-0) LP - T.Walker (0-1)
HR: SD: M.Kemp 2 (4); HO: D.LeMahieu (1)
San Diego leads 3-1
 

5

 RHE 
Oakland Athletic4120

Box

Las Vegas280
WP - J.Cotton (1-0) LP - LV BP (0-2)
HR: OA: O.Herrera (1), D.Descalso (1); LV: J.Bradley Jr. (1), R.Grossman (1)
Oakland Athletic wins series 4-1
 
Extra InningsRHE 
San Diego590

Box

High Octane4140
WP - M.Foltynewicz (1-0) LP - J.Ross (0-1)
HR: SD: D.Ortiz (1), A.Rosales (1); HO: P.Goldschmidt (2)
San Diego wins series 4-1
 

6

   

7

   
     

 

 

 

 
 
 
  Expedia.com
  125x125 USA Today First 3 Months $34
  160x600 USA Today First 2 Months for $25


Home Email BWB Results Current Standings Roster Information
Change Personal Information Logout Password Maintenance
Benchwarmer Baseball Privacy Policy
Statistics and Box Score Data: Content Copyright 2020, The Sports Forecaster. Distributed by XML Team Solutions.
Google  
Site designed and maintained by Benchwarmer Fantasy Sports