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 2012 Entrants (in order of seeding):
Fukushima (89-62)
Bellvue (83-67)
Chernobyl (81-69)
Machu Picchu (67-83)
Semifinals - Machu Picchu vs Fukushima; Chernobyl vs Bellvue
Finals - Chernobyl vs Fukushima - Fukushima won the season series
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2012 Gore Cup Winner - Chernobyl in 5 Games
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Finals
Game Chernobyl vs. Fukushima
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R H E Chernobyl 6 10 1 Box
Fukushima 4 9 2 WP - Y.Darvish (1-0) LP - Y.Gallardo (0-1) HR: Cher: C.Gonzalez (1); Fuk: J.Hamilton (1) Chernobyl leads 1-0
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R H E Chernobyl 5 12 0 Box
Fukushima 3 9 1 WP - R.Dickey (1-0) LP - Fuk BP (0-1) HR: Cher: N.Aoki (1), J.Heyward (1), C.Johnson (1); Fuk: R.Weeks (1), J.Hamilton (2) Chernobyl leads 2-0
3
R H E Fukushima 2 5 1 Box
Chernobyl 5 9 2 WP - D.Price (1-0) LP - C.Sale (0-1) HR: Cher: J.Heyward (2) Chernobyl leads 3-0
4
R H E Fukushima 7 11 0 Box
Chernobyl 6 7 1 WP - Fuk BP (1-1) LP - Cher BP (0-1) HR: Fuk: B.Harper (1), R.Weeks (2), J.Hamilton (3), A.Soriano (1); Cher: J.Heyward (3) Chernobyl leads 3-1
5
R H E Fukushima 1 6 1 Box
Chernobyl 4 9 0 WP - M.Minor (1-0) LP - Fuk BP (1-2) HR: Fuk: A.Soriano (2), B.Moss (1); Cher: N.Aoki (2), B.Posey (1) Chernobyl wins series 4-1
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Semifinals
Game Semifinal One Semifinal Two
1
R H E Machu Picchu 1 5 0 Box
Fukushima 7 12 0 WP - Y.Gallardo (1-0) LP - J.Johnson (0-1) HR: MP: A.Pujols (1); Fuk: R.Weeks (1), A.Soriano (1), I.Desmond (1) Fukushima leads 1-0
R H E Chernobyl 5 11 2 Box
Bellvue Hospital 2 7 0 WP - Y.Darvish (1-0) LP - B.Anderson (0-1) HR: Cher: J.Rollins (1) Chernobyl leads 1-0
2
R H E Machu Picchu 5 11 0 Box
Fukushima 11 17 0 WP - Fuk BP (1-0) LP - J.Vargas (0-1) HR: Fuk: B.Harper (1), J.Hamilton (1), J.Lucroy (1) Fukushima leads 2-0
R H E Chernobyl 4 0 0 Box
Bellvue Hospital 0 0 0 WP - R.Dickey (1-0) LP - C. Buchholz (0-1) Chernobyl leads 2-0
3
R H E Fukushima 6 9 0 Box
Machu Picchu 4 10 1 WP - Fuk BP (2-0) LP - T.Hanson (0-1) HR: Fuk: R.Howard (1); MP: E.Encarnacion (1) Fukushima leads 3-0
R H E Bellvue Hospital 1 11 0 Box
Chernobyl 6 11 0 WP - D.Price (1-0) LP - BH BP (0-1) HR: BH: M.Kemp (1); Cher: B.Posey (1), Y.Cespedes (1) Chernobyl leads 3-0
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R H E Fukushima 2 9 3 Box
Machu Picchu 10 15 1 WP - J.Saunders (1-0) LP - S.Diamond (0-1) HR: MP: A.Pujols 2 (3), A.Rios 2 (2), J.Rutledge (1) Fukushima leads 3-1
R H E Bellvue Hospital 2 10 0 Box
Chernobyl 7 12 4 WP - Cher BP (1-0) LP - W.Rodriguez (0-1) HR: BH: M.Ellis (1), M.Montero (1), C.Pena (1); Cher: C.Johnson (1) Chernobyl wins series 4-0
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R H E Fukushima 7 9 0 Box
Machu Picchu 6 9 0 WP - M.Fiers (1-0) LP - G.Floyd (0-1) HR: Fuk: R.Howard (2), I.Desmond (2); MP: E.Encarnacion (2), C.Headley (1), A.Pujols (4) Fukushima wins series 4-1
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