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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 2008 Entrants (in order of seeding):
- NJ (85-65) - First time that they haven't won the division
crown.
- Motley (85-65) - League champ in 2006. 5-7 record vs. NJ
sets them as the 2nd seed.
- Bedrock (74-76) - 3rd straight 2nd-place finish behind
Tombstone. Missed by only 4 games.
- Oklahoma (74-76) - Gore Cup winner in 2007. 3-9 record
against Bedrock this year has them seeded 4th.
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Semifinals - Oklahoma vs. NJ; Bedrock vs. Motley
Finals - Oklahoma vs. Bedrock - Bedrock won the season series 9-3.
2008 Gore Cup Winner - Bedrock in 6 Games
Playoffs main page
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Finals
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Oklahoma vs. Bedrock |
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| R | H | E | | Oklahoma | 3 | 8 | 2 | Box | Bedrock | 4 | 7 | 1 | WP - E.Santana (1-0) LP - B.Sheets (0-1) HR: OK: M.Aviles (1) Bedrock leads 1-0 |
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| R | H | E | | Oklahoma | 4 | 8 | 2 | Box | Bedrock | 6 | 8 | 0 | WP - R.Halladay (1-0) LP - J.Danks (0-1) HR: OK: A.Huff (1), G.Soto (1); Bed: M.Young (1) Bedrock leads 2-0 |
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| R | H | E | | Bedrock | 2 | 14 | 0 | Box | Oklahoma | 11 | 14 | 0 | WP - J.Jurrjens (1-0) LP - J.Duchscherer (0-1) HR: Bed: G.Sheffield (1); OK: A.Huff (2), M.Ordonez (1), G.Soto (2) Bedrock leads 2-1 |
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| R | H | E | | Bedrock | 3 | 7 | 0 | Box | Oklahoma | 4 | 13 | 0 | WP - J.Lackey (1-0) LP - Bed BP (0-1) HR: none Series tied 2-2 |
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| R | H | E | | Bedrock | 7 | 11 | 0 | Box | Oklahoma | 2 | 4 | 4 | WP - B.Arroyo (1-0) LP - A.Harang (0-1) HR: Bed: B.Butler (1) Bedrock leads 3-2 |
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| R | H | E | | Oklahoma | 4 | 11 | 1 | Box | Bedrock | 7 | 13 | 0 | WP - E.Santana (2-0) LP - B.Sheets (0-2) HR: Bed: G.Sheffield (2), H.Kendrick (1) Bedrock wins series 4-2 |
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Semifinals
Game |
Semifinal One |
Semifinal Two |
1 |
Extra Innings | R | H | E | | Oklahoma | 8 | 9 | 3 | Box | NJ | 7 | 9 | 0 | WP - Sheets (1-0) LP - Guthrie (0-1) HR: Ok: Soto (1); NJ: Delgado 2 (2), Jacobs (1) Oklahoma leads 1-0 | |
| R | H | E | | Bedrock | 7 | 15 | 0 | Box | Motley | 5 | 15 | 0 | WP - E.Santana (1-0) LP - Meche (0-1) HR: Mot: Pedroia (1), Giambi (1), Ross (1) Bedrock leads 1-0 | |
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| R | H | E | | Oklahoma | 8 | 13 | 0 | Box | NJ | 5 | 10 | 2 | WP - J.Danks (1-0) LP - M.Cain (0-1) HR: OK: Aviles (1), Holliday (1), Soto (2); NJ: Delgado (3) Oklahoma leads 2-0 | |
Extra Innings | R | H | E | | Bedrock | 3 | 11 | 2 | Box | Motley | 2 | 7 | 0 | WP - R.Halladay (1-0) LP - Mot BP (0-1) HR: none Bedrock leads 2-0 | |
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| R | H | E | | NJ | 5 | 9 | 1 | Box | Oklahoma | 2 | 9 | 2 | WP - T.Wellemeyer (1-0) LP - J.Jurrjens (0-1) HR: NJ: M.Ramirez (1), M.Jacobs (2) Oklahoma leads 2-1 | |
| R | H | E | | Motley | 3 | 8 | 3 | Box | Bedrock | 4 | 11 | 1 | WP - B.Arroyo (1-0) LP - Mot BP (0-2) HR: Mot: J.Cantu (1), C.Ross (2) Bedrock leads 3-0 | |
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| R | H | E | | NJ | 6 | 11 | 0 | Box | Oklahoma | 9 | 17 | 0 | WP - OK BP (1-0) LP - J.Sanchez (0-1) HR: NJ: J.Bay (1), M.Mora (1); OK: M.Holliday 2 (3), G.Soto (3), C.Guillen (1) Oklahoma leads 3-1 | |
| R | H | E | | Motley | 10 | 14 | 0 | Box | Bedrock | 2 | 7 | 0 | WP - J.Weaver (1-0) LP - A.Burnett (0-1) HR: Mot: D.Pedroia (2), V.Guerrero (1), C.Ross (3) Bedrock leads 3-1 | |
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| R | H | E | | NJ | 8 | 8 | 0 | Box | Oklahoma | 6 | 10 | 0 | WP - A.Pettitte (1-0) LP - A.Harang (0-1) HR: NJ: M.Ramirez (2), C.Delgado (4); OK: M.Aviles (2) Oklahoma leads 3-2 | |
| R | H | E | | Motley | 3 | 11 | 0 | Box | Bedrock | 4 | 8 | 0 | WP - F.Liriano (1-0) LP - J.Beckett (0-1) HR: Mot: H.Ramirez (1), C.Granderson (1) Bedrock wins series 4-1 | |
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| R | H | E | | Oklahoma | 4 | 10 | 2 | Box | NJ | 6 | 10 | 0 | WP - NJ BP (1-0) LP - OK BP (1-1) HR: OK: A.Huff (1); NJ: I.Rodriguez (1) Series tied 3-3 | |
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| R | H | E | | Oklahoma | 4 | 8 | 0 | Box | NJ | 3 | 8 | 0 | WP - J.Danks (2-0) LP - NJ BP (1-1) HR: OK: C.Gomez (1) Oklahoma wins series 4-3 | |
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