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The 2009 Benchwarmer Bash
Benchwarmer Baseball holds a final playoff
tournament each fall, taking all the league champions and - for now -
some wildcard teams and crowning a single champ for all of Benchwarmer
Baseball.
The format - as BWB continues to grow - will be in flux from season
to season. Eventually, leagues will be part of "associations"
and "federations" and there will be champs at each level that advance
to the final bash.
In 2009, with 17 leagues, we're making that move to
Federations. Currently, there are 8 Federations in BWB - each
with 2 leagues (and one with 3). Five teams will make each
Federation round. The league champs, plus the top
non-championship teams in the federation as wildcards (so 3 wildcards
in most, 2 in the Eckersley Federation). Teams will be picked as
a wild card based on their
Power Index
Numbers in their federation. The bottom 2 wild card teams (teams
4 & 5) will play each other to make a spot in the Federation
Semifinals.
Each Federation crowns a champ...then the 8 remaining teams will
play in a final bracket - seeded by Power Index (ranked over all BWB).
Confused? You'll see how it plays out.
PRIZE -
The winner of the Benchwarmer Bash will earn two free seasons for
their winning team, in addition to the free season they may have won
if they were a league champion. The Bash runner up will earn one
free season.
Last year's Bash
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| Past BW Bash Champions: |
| 2008: Trinidad (Longball) |
| 2007: Gashouse (Reality Bites) |
| 2006: NJ (now Jersey City, Shadowball) |
| 2005: Carlisle (Beatleball) |
| 2004: Gorilla (now Savoy,
Beatleball) |
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2009 Entrants:
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Federation Hall of Fame: Oaxaca (4)
Shadowball: Medford (16)
Wild Cards:
Oklahoma - Hall of Fame (1)
Las Vegas - Shadowball (2)
Seattle - Hall of Fame (3)
Aaron Federation
Results
2009 Hank Aaron Federation Champion: Oklahoma Rufneks
(Hall of Fame) - Phil Dang
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Bench
Federation Chevy Chase: Key West
(5)
Beer: Chang (12)
Wild Cards:
Dallas - Chevy Chase (1)
Clark's - Chevy Chase (2)
Hornsby's - Beer (3)
Bench Federation
Results
2009 Johnny Bench Federation Champion: Key West Fins (Chevy
Chase) - Phil Dang |
Cobb
Federation Beatleball: Los Anaheim (10)
Reality Bites: London 2012 (7)
Wild Cards:
Lake Wobegon - Beatleball (1)
Sea Isle City - Reality Bites (2)
Displaced - Beatleball (3)
Cobb Federation
Results
2009 Ty Cobb Federation Champion: London 2012 Olympians
(Reality Bites) - Scott Campbell & Leif Jonson
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DiMaggio
Federation Redbirds: Prairie (7)
Three of a Kind: Vegas Strip (4)
Wild Cards:
Hudson River - Three of a Kind (1)
Manalapan - Redbirds (2)
Detroit - Three of a Kind (3)
DiMaggio
Federation Results
2009 Joe DiMaggio Federation Champion: Vegas Strip Poker
(Three of a Kind) - Phil Dang |
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Eckersley Federation
Longball: Nokomis (13)
Golden Throat: Newport News (15)
Experts: FantasyPros911.com (10)
Wild Cards:
Mudville - Longball (1)
Colter's - Experts (2)
Eckersley
Federation Results
2009 Dennis Eckersley Federation Champion: Mudville Nine
(Longball) - Rob Behymer
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Foxx
Federation Triple Crown: Oakdale (4)
Deuces Wild: Austrian (1)
Wild Cards:
Pittsburgh - Triple Crown (2)
Washington - Deuces Wild (3)
Erie - Deuces Wild (5)
Foxx Federation
Results
2009 Jimmie Foxx Federation Champion: Austrian Goldbugs
(Deuces Wild) - Adam Wilson |
Gehrig
Federation K Street: India (9)
Commissioners: Humpback (6)
Wild Cards:
Altoona - K Street (1)
Aksarben - K Street (2)
South Park - Commissioners (3)
Gehrig
Federation Results
2009 Lou Gehrig Federation Champion: Aksarben
Bugeaters (K Street) - Don Kruse
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Hornsby
Federation Blue and Gray: Charleston (2)
Bleed Dodger Blue: South Hills (5)
Wild Cards:
Detroit - Blue and Gray (1)
Pygmy - Bleed Dodger Blue (3)
Fort Snelling - Blue and Gray (4)
Hornsby
Federation Results
2009 Rogers Hornsby Federation Champion: Fort Snelling
Pioneers (Blue and Gray) - Jerry Stevens
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Number in parentheses represents Federation Power Index ranking. |
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Benchwarmer Bash - Quarterfinals |
2009 Benchwarmer
Bash Bracket |
| Semifinals: Key West (90-60, Chevy
Chase) vs.
Oklahoma (95-55, Hall of Fame)
Aksarben (95-55, K Street) vs. Mudville (92-58, Longball) |
Benchwarmer Bash
Finals Oklahoma Rufneks - Phil
Dang; Seed #4 - BWB Power Index: 8
vs.
Aksarben Bugeaters - Don Kruse; Seed #3 - BWB
Power Index: 5 |
2009 Benchwarmer Bash Championship
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Benchwarmer Bash Championship Series
- Oklahoma vs. Aksarben |
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| | R | H | E | | | Oklahoma | 8 | 12 | 1 | Box | | Aksarben | 5 | 14 | 1 | WP - C.Lee (1-0) LP - Aks BP (0-1)
HR: Ok: H.Ramirez (1), J.Mauer (1), M.Ramirez (1), J.Uribe (1); Aks: M.Young (1)
Oklahoma leads 1-0 |
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| | R | H | E | | | Oklahoma | 2 | 13 | 1 | Box | | Aksarben | 4 | 8 | 0 | WP - M.Cain (1-0) LP - J.Verlander (0-1)
HR: Ok: H.Ramirez (2), M.Teixeira (1); Aks: M.Teixeira (1)
Series tied 1-1 |
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| | R | H | E | | | Aksarben | 3 | 10 | 0 | Box | | Oklahoma | 7 | 13 | 0 | WP - U.Jimenez (1-0) LP - U.Jimenez (0-1)
HR: Aks: M.Montero (1); Ok: H.Ramirez (3), G.Jones (1), A.Ramirez (1)
Oklahoma leads 2-1 |
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| | R | H | E | | | Aksarben | 9 | 13 | 0 | Box | | Oklahoma | 7 | 10 | 1 | WP - Aks BP (1-1) LP - S.Feldman (0-1)
HR: Aks: J.Bartlett (1), M.Teixeira (2), B.Butler (1), M.Young (1); Ok: M.Teixeira (2)
Series tied 2-2 |
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| | R | H | E | | | Aksarben | 7 | 12 | 1 | Box | | Oklahoma | 9 | 15 | 0 | WP - M.Rzepczynski (1-0) LP - S.Feldman (0-1)
HR: Aks: M.Teixeira (3), B.Butler (2); Ok: J.Mauer (2), M.Teixeira (3)
Oklahoma leads 3-2 |
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| | R | H | E | | | Oklahoma | 4 | 12 | 0 | Box | | Aksarben | 7 | 12 | 0 | WP - Z.Greinke (1-0) LP - C.Lee (1-1)
HR: Ok: J.Uribe (2)
Series tied 3-3 |
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| Extra Innings | R | H | E | | | Oklahoma | 3 | 8 | 0 | Box | | Aksarben | 4 | 8 | 0 | WP - Aks BP (2-1) LP - Ok BP (0-1)
HR: Ok: G.Jones (2); Aks: M.Holliday (1), M.Montero (2)
Aksarben wins series 4-3 |
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2009 Benchwarmer Bash Semifinals
| Game |
Series One |
Series Two |
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| | R | H | E | | | Key West | 8 | 12 | 0 | Box | | Oklahoma | 6 | 10 | 1 | WP - T.Lincecum (1-0) LP - C.Lee (0-1)
HR: KW: G.Jones (1), R.Zimmerman (1), P.Konerko (1), J.Borbon 2 (2); Ok: H.Ramirez (1), G.Jones (1), S.Smith 2 (2)
Key West leads 1-0 |
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| | R | H | E | | | Aksarben | 5 | 10 | 2 | Box | | Mudville | 2 | 6 | 1 | WP - Z.Greinke (1-0) LP - R.Halladay (0-1)
HR: Aks: B.Butler 2 (2), C.Gonzalez (1)
Aksarben leads 1-0 |
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| Extra Innings | R | H | E | | | Key West | 7 | 11 | 3 | Box | | Oklahoma | 8 | 11 | 0 | WP - J.Verlander (1-0) LP - J.Jurrjens (0-1)
HR: KW: M.Holliday (1), I.Kinsler (1); Ok: J.Mauer (1), A.Ramirez (1)
Series tied 1-1 |
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| | R | H | E | | | Aksarben | 7 | 8 | 5 | Box | | Mudville | 6 | 7 | 2 | WP - M.Cain (1-0) LP - W.Rodriguez (0-1)
HR: Aks: M.Holliday (1); Mud: B.Hawpe (1)
Aksarben leads 2-0 |
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| | R | H | E | | | Oklahoma | 4 | 13 | 2 | Box | | Key West | 2 | 13 | 0 | WP - U.Jimenez (1-0) LP - R.Porcello (0-1)
HR: none
Oklahoma leads 2-1 |
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| | R | H | E | | | Mudville | 2 | 9 | 1 | Box | | Aksarben | 4 | 13 | 0 | WP - U.Jimenez (1-0) LP - Mud BP (0-1)
HR: Mud: B.Harris (1); Aks: J.Bartlett (1)
Aksarben leads 3-0 |
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| | R | H | E | | | Oklahoma | 7 | 13 | 0 | Box | | Key West | 5 | 8 | 1 | WP - S.Feldman (1-0) LP - KW BP (0-1)
HR: Ok: C.Utley (1), G.Jones (2), A.Ramirez (2), S.Smith (3); KW: G.Jones (2), R.Zimmerman (2), C.Granderson (1)
Oklahoma leads 3-1 |
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| | R | H | E | | | Mudville | 4 | 9 | 0 | Box | | Aksarben | 3 | 7 | 0 | WP - Mud BP (1-1) LP - J.Marquis (0-1)
HR: Mud: C.Utley (1), B.Hawpe (2)
Aksarben leads 3-1 |
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| Extra Innings | R | H | E | | | Oklahoma | 4 | 9 | 1 | Box | | Key West | 3 | 10 | 0 | WP - M.Rzepczynski (1-0) LP - KW BP (0-2)
HR: Ok: M.Ramirez (1); KW: I.Kinsler (2)
Oklahoma wins series 4-1 |
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| | R | H | E | | | Mudville | 2 | 6 | 0 | Box | | Aksarben | 4 | 7 | 2 | WP - S.Feldman (1-0) LP - M.Garza (0-1)
HR: none
Aksarben wins series 4-1 |
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