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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 2026 Entrants (in order of seeding):

Diplomatic (85-65)
Hello Wisconsin (85-65)
Bloomingdale (85-66)
Baltimore (81-69)

Semifinals - Baltimore vs. Diplomatic; Bloomingdale vs. Hello Wisconsin

Diplomatic won 4 games to 2

Hello Wisconsin won 4 games to 1

Finals - Hello Wisconsin vs. Diplomatic

Season series: Tied 3-3

2026 Gore Cup Winner - Diplomatic won 4 games to 0

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Finals

Game

Hello Wisconsin vs. Diplomatic

1

	R	H	E
Hello Wisconsin	2	8	0	Box
Diplomatic	5	6	0	Box
WP - C.Schlittler (1-0) LP - D.Rasmussen (0-1) HR: HW: D.Baldwin (1) Diplomatic leads 1-0

2

Extra Innings	R	H	E
Hello Wisconsin	1	4	0	Box
Diplomatic	2	3	0	Box
WP - L.Henderson (1-0) LP - HW BP (0-1) HR: none Diplomatic leads 2-0

3

	R	H	E
Diplomatic	6	12	0	Box
Hello Wisconsin	5	12	0	Box
WP - N.Martinez (1-0) LP - P.Skenes (0-1) HR: HW: M.Machado (1), Z.Neto (1) Diplomatic leads 3-0

4

	R	H	E
Diplomatic	4	9	1	Box
Hello Wisconsin	3	12	0	Box
WP - B.Pfaadt (1-0) LP - HW BP (0-2) HR: Dip: M.Betts (1), H.Hernandez (1); HW: G.Conine (1) Diplomatic wins series 4-0

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Semifinals

Game

Semifinal One

Semifinal Two

1

Extra Innings	R	H	E
Baltimore	2	10	1	Box
Diplomatic	3	11	0	Box
WP - C.Schlittler (1-0) LP - Bal BP (0-1) HR: Bal: B.Lee (1), E.Sosa (1); Dip: W.Abreu (1) Diplomatic leads 1-0

	R	H	E
Bloomingdale	3	9	1	Box
Hello Wisconsin	5	11	0	Box
WP - D.Rasmussen (1-0) LP - F.Valdez (0-1) HR: none Hello Wisconsin leads 1-0

2

	R	H	E
Baltimore	1	8	0	Box
Diplomatic	5	9	0	Box
WP - L.Henderson (1-0) LP - T.Rogers (0-1) HR: Bal: C.Walker (1); Dip: B.Turang (1), H.Hernandez (1) Diplomatic leads 2-0

	R	H	E
Bloomingdale	4	9	0	Box
Hello Wisconsin	5	2	0	Box
WP - M.Wacha (1-0) LP - F.Griffin (0-1) HR: Blm: Y.Alvarez (1); HW: G.Conine (1) Hello Wisconsin leads 2-0

3

	R	H	E
Diplomatic	2	6	0	Box
Baltimore	3	6	2	Box
WP - D.Martin (1-0) LP - N.Martinez (0-1) HR: Dip: B.Turang (2), H.Goodman (1), I.Happ (1) Diplomatic leads 2-1

	R	H	E
Hello Wisconsin	3	16	0	Box
Bloomingdale	2	8	0	Box
WP - P.Skenes (1-0) LP - Blm BP (0-1) HR: Blm: T.Edman (1) Hello Wisconsin leads 3-0

4

	R	H	E
Diplomatic	4	8	3	Box
Baltimore	1	6	0	Box
WP - B.Pfaadt (1-0) LP - S.McClanahan (0-1) HR: Dip: E.Duran (1), W.Abreu (2) Diplomatic leads 3-1

	R	H	E
Hello Wisconsin	2	3	0	Box
Bloomingdale	8	13	0	Box
WP - Blm BP (1-1) LP - HW BP (0-1) HR: HW: S.Suzuki (1); Blm: B.Harper (1), T.Edman (2), A.Wells (1) Hello Wisconsin leads 3-1

5

	R	H	E
Diplomatic	3	9	0	Box
Baltimore	5	8	0	Box
WP - K.Bradish (1-0) LP - C.Holmes (0-1) HR: Dip: W.Abreu (3), I.Happ (2); Bal: B.Lee (2) Diplomatic leads 3-2

Extra Innings	R	H	E
Hello Wisconsin	4	12	0	Box
Bloomingdale	3	9	0	Box
WP - HW BP (1-1) LP - Blm BP (1-2) HR: HW: G.Conine 2 (3); Blm: Z.Gelof (1) Hello Wisconsin wins series 4-1

6

	R	H	E
Baltimore	0	6	1	Box
Diplomatic	6	6	2	Box
WP - C.Schlittler (2-0) LP - Y.Yamamoto (0-1) HR: Dip: B.Turang (3), M.Betts (1), H.Goodman (2) Diplomatic wins series 4-2

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