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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 2006 Entrants (in order of seeding):

  • Andover (81-69) - Defending Gore Cup Champ.  Tight race this year with Tombstone.  League Power Index: 5
  • Atlanta (80-71) - Division champ in 2005.  Just missed a repeat by losing in the one-game playoff with YYZ.  Power Index: 7
  • Norfolk Southern (77-73) - Repeat appearance in Gore Cup.  Higher seed than Stockholm due to head-to-head record.  Power Index: 9
  • Stockholm (77-73) - Appeared in Gore Cup in 2005.  2006 record identical to 2005.  Power Index: 10

Semifinals - Stockholm wins in 6 games, Atlanta wins in 5.

 

Finals - Stockholm vs. Atlanta.  Atlanta took the season series 4-2.

2006 Winner: Atlanta Assault & Battery

 

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Finals

Game Stockholm vs. Atlanta

1
  R H E  
Stockholm 3 7 2

Box
Atlanta 5 11 0
WP - Verlander (1-0)  LP - Santana (0-1)

HR: Stk: Berkman (1), Crede (1), Guillen (1); Atl: Hafner (1)

Atlanta leads 1-0

2
Extra Innings R H E  
Stockholm 2 9 0

Box
Atlanta 3 10 3
WP - Jennings (1-0)  LP - Stk BP (0-1)

HR - Stk: Castillo (1); Atl: Hafner (2), Pierzynski (1)

Atlanta leads 2-0

3
  R H E  
Atlanta 5 14 0

Box
Stockholm 3 12 1
WP - James (1-0)  LP - Stk BP (0-2)

HR - Atl: Sizemore (1), Huff (1)

Atlanta leads 3-0

4
  R H E  
Atlanta 11 13 2

Box
Stockholm 7 9 0
WP - Atl BP (1-0)  LP - Sele (0-1)

HR - Atl: Sizemore 2 (3), Huff (1)

Atlanta wins 4-0
   


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Semifinals

Game Semifinal One Semifinal Two

1
Extra Innings R H E  
Stockholm 8 10 2

Box
Andover 7 9 1
WP - Stk BP (1-0)  LP - Davies (0-1)

HR - Stk: Berkman (1); And: Lee (1)

Stockholm leads 1-0
  R H E  
Norfolk Southern 2 8 1

Box
Atlanta 7 12 0
WP - Verlander (1-0)  LP - NS BP (0-1)

HR - Atl: Hafner 2 (2)

Atlanta leads 1-0

2
  R H E  
Stockholm 4 9 0

Box
Andover 5 9 0
WP - Halladay (1-0)  LP - Vazquez (0-1)

HR - Stk: Ortiz (1); And: Martinez (1), Francoeur (1)

Series tied 1-1
  R H E  
Norfolk Southern 5 14 1

Box
Atlanta 7 14 0
WP - Atl BP (1-0)  LP - Lee (0-1)

HR - Atl: Pierzynski (1)

Atlanta leads 2-0

3
  R H E  
Andover 4 9 1

Box
Stockholm 5 8 2
WP - Schmidt (1-0)  LP - E.Santana (0-1)

HR -And: Martinez (2); Stk: Guillen (1)

Stockholm leads 2-1
  R H E  
Atlanta 14 15 2

Box
Norfolk Southern 3 4 0
WP - James (1-0)  LP - Cook (0-1)

HR - Atl: Ibanez (1), Hafner 2 (4), DeJesus (1), Peralta 2 (2)

Atlanta leads 3-0

4
  R H E  
Andover 3 10 0

Box
Stockholm 5 9 0
WP - Sele (1-0)  LP - Buehrle (0-1)

HR - Stk: Crede (1)

Stockholm leads 3-1
Extra Innings R H E  
Atlanta 3 8 0

Box
Norfolk Southern 4 9 0
WP - Francis (1-0)  LP - Westbrook (0-1)

HR - none

Atlanta leads 3-1

5
  R H E  
Andover 8 13 2

Box
Stockholm 6 10 0
WP - Arroyo (1-0)  LP - Miner (0-1)

HR - And: Inge (1); Stk: Patterson (1)

Stockholm leads 3-2
  R H E  
Atlanta 10 5 0

Box
Norfolk Southern 3 11 1
WP - Davis (1-0)  LP - Sheets (0-1)

HR - NS: DeRosa (1)

Atlanta wins 4-1

6
  R H E  
Stockholm 4 12 0

Box
Andover 2 4 2
WP - Santana (1-0)  LP - Davies (0-2)

HR - none

Stockholm wins 4-2
 
     



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