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 2007 Entrants (in order of seeding):

Kelly Bundy (89-61) - Rising from 4th place, hung tough for a while, but Gashouse was just too good.

Gladstone (89-62) - Last year was one game short of the league championship. This season lost out in a 1-game division playoff.

Florida (80-70) - Top hitting team in the league, but 17 Pinesitter Pitcher starts may have killed chances as they fell 3 games short.

Parkville (79-71) - Moving up one place with 14 more wins than last season.

Finals

Game

Gladstone vs. Kelly Bundy

	R	H	E
Gladstone	5	10	0	Box
Kelly Bundy	3	5	0	Box
WP - Peavy (1-0) LP - Penny (0-1) HR - Glad: Posada (1); KB: Holliday (1) Gladstone leads 1-0

Extra Innings	R	H	E
Gladstone	3	7	3	Box
Kelly Bundy	4	7	0	Box
WP - KB BP (1-0) LP - Glad BP (0-1) HR - Glad: Willingham (1); KB: Sheffield (1) Series tied 1-1

	R	H	E
Kelly Bundy	5	17	0	Box
Gladstone	4	6	0	Box
WP - KB BP (2-0) LP - Glad BP (0-2) HR - KB: Polanco (1), Holliday (2) Kelly Bundy leads 2-1

	R	H	E
Kelly Bundy	4	11	0	Box
Gladstone	7	9	0	Box
WP - Zito (1-0) LP - KB BP (2-1) HR - KB: Sheffield (2), Holliday (3); Glad: Hermidia (1), Dunn (1) Series tied 2-2

	R	H	E
Kelly Bundy	7	12	0	Box
Gladstone	6	10	1	Box
WP - KB BP (3-1) LP - Clemens (0-1) HR - KB: Holliday (4), McCann (1) Kelly Bundy leads 3-2

Extra Innings	R	H	E
Gladstone	1	5	0	Box
Kelly Bundy	2	11	1	Box
WP - Penny (1-1) LP - Glad BP (0-3) HR - Glad: Peralta (1) Kelly Bundy wins 4-2

Semifinals

Game

Semifinal One

Semifinal Two

	R	H	E
Parkville	7	13	0	Box
Kelly Bundy	4	8	1	Box
WP - Webb (1-0) LP - Penny (0-1) HR - Park: Young (1), Thomas (1); KB: Howard (1) Parkville leads 1-0

	R	H	E
Florida	5	10	0	Box
Gladstone	6	8	3	Box
WP - Peavy (1-0) LP - Wells (0-1) HR - Fla: Fielder 2 (2) Gladstone leads 1-0

	R	H	E
Parkville	6	14	0	Box
Kelly Bundy	5	8	0	Box
WP - Lackey (1-0) LP - Billingsley (0-1) HR - Park: Thomas 3 (4); KB: Howard 2 (3) Parkville leads 2-0

	R	H	E
Florida	3	9	1	Box
Gladstone	7	11	1	Box
WP - Beckett (1-0) LP - Fla BP (0-1) HR - Fla: Granderson (1); Glad: Jones (1), Peralta 2 (2) Gladstone leads 2-0

	R	H	E
Kelly Bundy	3	10	0	Box
Parkville	2	1	0	Box
WP - Guthrie (1-0) LP - Kazmir (0-1) HR - Park: Olivo (1) Parkville leads 2-1

	R	H	E
Gladstone	6	7	3	Box
Florida	8	11	0	Box
WP - Fla BP (1-1) LP - Smoltz (0-1) HR - Glad: Hermida (1), Jones (2); Fla: Wells 2 (2); Phillips (1) Gladstone leads 2-1

	R	H	E
Kelly Bundy	5	11	2	Box
Parkville	4	11	0	Box
WP - Hill (1-0) LP - Gabbard (0-1) HR - KB: Howard (3); Park: Ordonez (1), Mora (1) Series tied 2-2

	R	H	E
Gladstone	8	11	0	Box
Florida	6	10	0	Box
WP - Glad BP (1-0) LP - James (0-1) HR - Glad: Hermida (2), Dunn (1), Thome (1); Fla: Tejada (1) Gladstone leads 3-1

	R	H	E
Kelly Bundy	4	10	0	Box
Parkville	3	9	0	Box
WP - Hill (1-0) LP - Park BP (0-1) HR - KB: McCann (1); Park: Olivo (2) Kelly Bundy leads 3-2

	R	H	E
Gladstone	5	9	0	Box
Florida	7	8	1	Box
WP - Bailey (1-0) LP - Clemens (0-1) HR - Glad: Posada 2 (2); Fla: Guererro 2 (2) Gladstone leads 3-2

Extra Innings	R	H	E
Parkville	4	10	2	Box
Kelly Bundy	5	7	1	Box
WP - Penny (1-1) LP - Park BP (0-2) HR - Park: Ordonez (2), Hunter (1); KB: Holliday (1), Guillen (1) Kelly Bundy wins 4-2

	R	H	E
Florida	8	16	2	Box
Gladstone	11	15	0	Box
WP - Peavy (2-0) LP - Bedard (0-1) HR - Fla: Lee 2 (2), Martinez (1), Phillips (2); Glad: Willingham 2 (2) Gladstone wins 4-2