Benchwarmer Baseball - The Al Gore Cup

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 2007 Entrants (in order of seeding):

Wayne (99-51) - Tough to win 99 games and finish in 2nd place - they only need to ask Dawns about that (100-game winners but no crown in 2006).

Dawns (80-70) - 20 fewer wins than last year, but still good enough for 2nd place.

Asia (76-74) - Our first league champ in 2005, Bottom Feeder champ last year. Now they take a run at the Gore Cup.

D.C. (66-84) - 18 games below .500, but still comes in 2nd in the Perry. First time they're not a last-place team.

Finals

Game

Asia vs. Wayne

	R	H	E
Asia	3	13	1	Box
Wayne	8	15	0	Box
WP - Kazmir (1-0) LP - Oswalt (0-1) HR - Way: Swisher (1) Wayne leads 1-0

	R	H	E
Asia	4	11	3	Box
Wayne	2	12	0	Box
WP - Francis (1-0) LP - Smoltz (0-1) HR - Way: Lee (1) Series tied 1-1

*Extra Innings*	R	H	E
Wayne	3	9	1	Box
Asia	4	9	4	Box
WP - Hudson (1-0) LP - Marshall (0-1) HR - Asia: Jones (1) Asia leads 2-1

	R	H	E
Wayne	5	7	1	Box
Asia	1	11	2	Box
WP - Zambrano (1-0) LP - Gorzelanny (0-1) HR - none Series tied 2-2

	R	H	E
Wayne	4	7	0	Box
Asia	5	12	3	Box
WP - Pettitte (1-0) LP - Maddux (0-1) HR - Asia: Thomas (1) Asia leads 3-2

	R	H	E
Asia	5	4	0	Box
Wayne	7	15	0	Box
WP - Way BP (1-0) LP - Oswalt (0-2) HR - Asia: Jones (2); Way: Swisher (2) Series tied 3-3

Extra Innings	R	H	E
Asia	3	10	0	Box
Wayne	4	10	0	Box
WP - Smoltz (1-1) LP - Asia BP (0-1) HR - Asia: Byrnes (1); Way: LaRoche (1) Wayne wins 4-3

Semifinals

Game

Semifinal One

Semifinal Two

	R	H	E
D.C.	3	6	1	Box
Wayne	5	5	2	Box
WP - Kazmir (1-0) LP - Arroyo (0-1) HR - DC: Uggla 2 (2); Way: Lee (1) Wayne leads 1-0

	R	H	E
Asia	1	11	0	Box
Dawns	5	16	0	Box
WP - Carmona (1-0) LP - Asia BP (0-1) HR - Asia: Hudson (1); Dawn: Dunn (1) Dawns leads 1-0

	R	H	E
D.C.	0	8	1	Box
Wayne	5	6	0	Box
WP - Smoltz (1-0) LP - Wakefield (0-1) HR: Way: Sanchez (1) Wayne leads 2-0

Extra Innings	R	H	E
Asia	5	11	0	Box
Dawns	6	7	1	Box
WP - Haren (1-0) LP - Francis (0-1) HR - Asia: Jones (1); Daw: Phillips (1) Dawns leads 2-0

	R	H	E
Wayne	4	11	0	Box
D.C.	3	6	3	Box
WP - Way BP (1-0) LP - DC BP (0-1) HR - none Wayne leads 3-0

Extra Innings	R	H	E
Dawns	3	6	0	Box
Asia	4	4	3	Box
WP - Hudson (1-0) LP - Lowe (0-1) HR - Asia: Hudson (2) Dawns leads 2-1

	R	H	E
Wayne	5	11	0	Box
D.C.	6	12	3	Box
WP - Litsch (1-0) LP - Zambrano (0-1) HR - DC: Griffey (1) Wayne leads 3-1

	R	H	E
Dawns	3	9	2	Box
Asia	6	9	4	Box
WP - Gorzelanny (1-0) LP - McGowan (0-1) HR: Daw: Loney (1); Asia: Snyder (1) Series tied 2-2

	R	H	E
Wayne	2	8	0	Box
D.C.	3	9	2	Box
WP - Maholm (1-0) LP - Way BP (1-1) HR - DC: Milledge (1) Wayne leads 3-2

	R	H	E
Dawns	6	11	4	Box
Asia	8	10	0	Box
WP - Pettitte (1-0) LP - Maine (0-1) HR - Daw: Phillips (2), Loney (2); Asia: Byrnes (1) Asia leads 3-2

Extra Innings	R	H	E
D.C.	4	13	0	Box
Wayne	3	8	0	Box
WP - Arroyo (1-1) LP - Kazmir (1-1) HR - DC: Uggla (3); Way: Martinez (1), Cabrera (1) Series tied 3-3

	R	H	E
Asia	7	11	0	Box
Dawns	1	10	0	Box
WP - Oswalt (1-0) LP - Carmona (1-1) HR - Asia: Byrnes (2), Young (1) Asia wins 4-2

	R	H	E
D.C.	2	5	4	Box
Wayne	8	10	1	Box
WP - Smoltz (2-0) LP - Wakefield (0-2) HR - DC: Nady (1), Way: Hardy (1) Wayne wins 4-3