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 2023 Entrants (in order of seeding):
Altoona (18-15)
Starship (13-20)
Cincinnati (11-22)
The Big Unit (20-13)
Semifinals - The Big Unit vs. Altoona; Cincinnati vs. Starship
The Big Unit won 4 games to 1
Cincinnati won 4 games to 0
Finals - The Big Unit vs. Cincinnati
Season series: Cincinnati won 4-2
2023 Gore Cup Winner - Cincinnati won 4 games to 2
WP - J.Assad (1-0) LP - Alt BP (0-1) HR: Alt: B.Nimmo (1), M.Wallner (1); TBU: G.Torres (2), P.Goldschmidt (1), J.Heyward (2) The Big Unit wins series 4-1