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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 2012 Entrants (in order of seeding):

Kabul (81-69)
Ruskin (81-69)
Backyard (79-71)
Hanoi (71-79)

Semifinals - Hanoi vs Kabul; Backyard vs Ruskin

Finals - Backyard vs Kabul - Backyard won the season series 4-2

2012 Gore Cup Winner - Backyard in 6 Games

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Finals

Game

Backyard vs. Kabul

1

	R	H	E
Backyard	5	10	0	Box
Kabul	3	7	2	Box
WP - C.Kershaw (1-0) LP - W.Chen (0-1) HR: Back: A.LaRoche (1), D.Murphy (1) Backyard leads 1-0

2

	R	H	E
Backyard	9	17	0	Box
Kabul	4	4	4	Box
WP - J.Weaver (1-0) LP - Kab BP (0-1) HR: Back: M.Holliday 2 (2), A.LaRoche (2); Kab: K.Johnson (1) Backyard leads 2-0

3

	R	H	E
Kabul	5	9	1	Box
Backyard	4	6	4	Box
WP - Kab BP (1-1) LP - Back BP (0-1) HR: Kab: G.Stanton (1), N.Aoki (1); Back: M.Holliday (3), A.Rios (1) Backyard leads 2-1

4

	R	H	E
Kabul	3	9	0	Box
Backyard	4	9	0	Box
WP - C.Lee (1-0) LP - Kab BP (1-2) HR: Kab: P.Fielder (1); Back: A.LaRoche (3), K.Suzuki (1) Backyard leads 3-1

5

	R	H	E
Kabul	5	9	3	Box
Backyard	1	8	0	Box
WP - J.Hellickson (1-0) LP - R.Detwiler (0-1) HR: Back: T.Hunter (1) Backyard leads 3-2

6

	R	H	E
Backyard	5	5	0	Box
Kabul	4	9	2	Box
WP - C.Kershaw (2-0) LP - W.Chen (0-2) HR: Kab: P.Fielder (2), R.Zimmerman (1) Backyard wins series 4-2

7

Semifinals

Game

Semifinal One

Semifinal Two

1

	R	H	E
Hanoi	2	9	0	Box
Kabul	3	11	2	Box
WP - W.Chen (1-0) LP - Han BP (0-1) HR: Kab: M.Cabrera (1) Kabul leads 1-0

	R	H	E
Backyard	0	12	1	Box
Ruskin	3	6	0	Box
WP - K.Lohse (1-0) LP - C.Kershaw (0-1) HR: Rus: B.Butler (1) Ruskin leads 1-0

2

	R	H	E
Hanoi	0	6	0	Box
Kabul	3	10	1	Box
WP - F.Doubront (1-0) LP - M.Bumgarner (0-1) HR: none Kabul leads 2-0

	R	H	E
Backyard	2	8	0	Box
Ruskin	8	10	0	Box
WP - C.Tillman (1-0) LP - M.Fiers (0-1) HR: Rus: F.Freeman (1) Ruskin leads 2-0

3

	R	H	E
Kabul	6	9	0	Box
Hanoi	5	9	0	Box
WP - Kab BP (1-0) LP - W.Miley (0-1) HR: Kab: M.Cabrera 2 (3), P.Fielder (1) Kabul leads 3-0

Extra Innings	R	H	E
Ruskin	3	10	0	Box
Backyard	4	6	0	Box
WP - J.Weaver (1-0) LP - C.Sabathia (0-1) HR: Rus: M.Wieters (1); Back: A.Rios (1) Ruskin leads 2-1

4

	R	H	E
Kabul	4	11	1	Box
Hanoi	3	7	1	Box
WP - J.Collmenter (1-0) LP - J.Johnson (0-1) HR: Kab: T.Plouffe (1) Kabul wins series 4-0

	R	H	E
Ruskin	4	9	1	Box
Backyard	5	9	1	Box
WP - M.Harrison (1-0) LP - C.Capuano (0-1) HR: Rus: F.Freeman (2), M.Wieters 2 (3) Series tied 2-2

5

	R	H	E
Ruskin	4	14	1	Box
Backyard	5	11	0	Box
WP - Back BP (1-0) LP - D.Fister (0-1) HR: Rus: A.Gordon (1), C.Iannetta (1); Back: J.Pacheco (1) Backyard leads 3-2

6

	R	H	E
Backyard	4	10	2	Box
Ruskin	5	13	0	Box
WP - K.Lohse (2-0) LP - Back BP (1-1) HR: Back: A.LaRoche (1); Rus: D.Barney (1) Series tied 3-3

7

Extra Innings	R	H	E
Backyard	6	10	2	Box
Ruskin	5	11	0	Box
WP - Back BP (2-1) LP - Rus BP (0-1) HR: Back: M.Holliday (1), A.LaRoche (2); Rus: B.Butler (2) Backyard wins series 4-3

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