The Best of the Worst
The Bottom Feeder Open - playing for pride and a few bucks.
A small taste of post season baseball as the third and fourth place
teams get a chance to play a few more games. Teams are ranked
1-8, based on season record and play a 3-game quarterfinal series.
Winners are re-seeded and play a 3-game semifinal.
The two remaining teams square off in a best-of-five finals.
The winner receives a bonus of 500,000 Benchwarmer Bucks.
The runner-up gets 250,000.
2012 Finals: Cincinnati (72-78) vs. Death Valley (78-72)
Season series: Death Valley won 4-2
2012 Winner - Death Valley 3 games to 0
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Finals
Game
Cincinnati vs. Death Valley
1
R H E Cincinnati 1 5 2 Box
Death Valley 5 6 2 WP - K.Medlen (1-0) LP - Cin BP (0-1) HR: DV: R.Howard (1), K.Morales (1), M.Prado (1) Death Valley leads 1-0
2
R H E Cincinnati 1 7 4 Box
Death Valley 5 8 3 WP - J.Peavy (1-0) LP - J.Cueto (0-1) HR: none Death Valley leads 2-0
3
R H E Death Valley 4 14 0 Box
Cincinnati 3 7 2 WP - Z.Greinke (1-0) LP - Cin BP (0-2) HR: DV: D.Jeter (1), J.Bruce (1); Cin: A.Pierzynski (1) Death Valley wins series 3-0
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Semifinals
Game
Semifinal One
Semifinal Two
1
R H E Pyongyang 3 5 2 Box
Death Valley 5 5 1 WP - L.Lynn (1-0) LP - L.Hendriks (0-1) HR: Pyon: A.Beltre (1), J.Heyward (1); DV: K.Morales (1) Death Valley leads 1-0
R H E RED HOT 7 10 1 Box
Cincinnati 5 6 3 WP - RH BP (1-0) LP - Cin BP (0-1) HR: RH: A.Craig (1), A.Rizzo 2 (2); Cin: C.Lee (1) RED HOT leads 1-0
2
R H E Death Valley 7 10 3 Box
Pyongyang 6 7 2 WP - DV BP (2-0) LP - N.Blackburn (0-1) HR: DV: K.Morales (2); Pyon: P.Alvarez (1), M.Moreland (1) Death Valley wins series 2-0
R H E Cincinnati 5 7 2 Box
RED HOT 4 12 0 WP - T.Hudson (1-0) LP - P.Corbin (0-1) HR: Cin: H.Pence (1), A.Jones (1); RH: J.Lucroy (1) Series tied 1-1
3
R H E RED HOT 2 10 0 Box
Cincinnati 7 7 0 WP - J.Shields (1-1) LP - A.Griffin (0-2) HR: Cin: A.Jones (2), J.Lowrie (1) Cincinnati wins series 2-1
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Quarterfinals
Game
Quarterfinal One
Quarterfinal Two
1
R H E Wallin 0 10 0 Box
Death Valley 5 12 2 WP - K.Medlen (1-0) LP - J.Verlander (0-1) HR: none Death Valley leads 1-0
R H E Pyongyang 6 10 6 Box
Reggae 3 7 0 WP - F.Hernandez (1-0) LP - D.Haren (0-1) HR: Pyon: P.Alvarez (1), J.Heyward (1); Reg: B.Upton (1), D.Espinosa (1), G.Jones 2 (2), I.Davis (1) Pyongyang leads 1-0
2
R H E Death Valley 8 12 0 Box
Wallin 5 6 3 WP - DV BP (1-0) LP - B.McCarthy (0-1) HR: DV: J.Bruce (1), R.Howard (1), M.Napoli (1); Wall: B.Belt (1) Death Valley wins series 2-0
R H E Reggae 2 8 0 Box
Pyongyang 6 5 4 WP - G.Gonzalez (1-0) LP - B.Morrow (0-1) HR: Reg: B.Upton (2), G.Soto (1) Pyongyang wins series 2-0
3
Game
Quarterfinal Three
Quarterfinal Four
1
R H E RED HOT 2 4 3 Box
BiPolar 4 7 0 WP - J.Lester (1-0) LP - A.Griffin (0-1) HR: BiP: S.Choo (1) BiPolar leads 1-0
R H E Sunnyside 5 9 0 Box
Cincinnati 4 8 2 WP - C.Hamels (1-0) LP - J.Shields (0-1) HR: Sun: J.Willingham (1), C.Young (1) Sunnyside leads 1-0
2
R H E BiPolar 1 6 1 Box
RED HOT 5 12 0 WP - R.Vogelsong (1-0) LP - M.Minor (0-1) HR: RH: B.Phillips (1), C.Beltran (1) Series tied 1-1
Extra Innings R H E Cincinnati 4 7 2 Box
Sunnyside 3 8 2 WP - J.Cueto (1-0) LP - M.Scherzer (0-1) HR: Sun: M.Saunders (1) Series tied 1-1
3
R H E RED HOT 6 10 0 Box
BiPolar 4 11 0 WP - T.Cahill (1-0) LP - P.Hughes (0-1) HR: BiP: C.Headley (1) RED HOT wins series 2-1
R H E Sunnyside 2 7 0 Box
Cincinnati 6 13 0 WP - I.Kennedy (1-0) LP - Sun BP (0-1) HR: Cin: M.Trumbo (1), J.Peralta (1) Cincinnati wins series 2-1
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