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 2026 Entrants (in order of seeding):

The Juice Jab (84-66)

Centauri (79-71)

Alaskan (76-74)

St Louis (71-79)

Finals

Game	TBD vs. TBD
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2
3
4
5
6
7

Semifinals

Game

Semifinal One

Semifinal Two

	R	H	E
St Louis	2	5	2	Box
The Juice Jab	5	8	2	Box
WP - Y.Yamamoto (1-0) LP - T.Rogers (0-1) HR: StL: N.Arenado (1); TJJ: E.De La Cruz (1) The Juice Jab leads 1-0

Extra Innings	R	H	E
Alaskan	2	4	1	Box
Centauri	3	4	1	Box
WP - D.Cease (1-0) LP - G.Williams (0-1) HR: Cen: M.McLain (1) Centauri leads 1-0

	R	H	E
St Louis	0	0	0	Box
The Juice Jab	0	0	0	Box
C. Sanchez vs C. Mize

	R	H	E
Alaskan	0	0	0	Box
Centauri	0	0	0	Box
G. Crochet vs J. deGrom

	R	H	E
The Juice Jab	0	0	0	Box
St Louis	0	0	0	Box
S. McClanahan vs J. Jones

	R	H	E
Centauri	0	0	0	Box
Alaskan	0	0	0	Box
P. Tolle vs K. Gausman

	R	H	E
The Juice Jab	0	0	0	Box
St Louis	0	0	0	Box
K. Harrison vs J. Wrobleski

	R	H	E
Centauri	0	0	0	Box
Alaskan	0	0	0	Box
N. Lodolo vs A. Pallante

If necessary	R	H	E
The Juice Jab	0	0	0	Box
St Louis	0	0	0	Box
T. Bradley vs M. Liberatore

If necessary	R	H	E
Centauri	0	0	0	Box
Alaskan	0	0	0	Box
G. Kirby vs M. Fried

If necessary	R	H	E
St Louis	0	0	0	Box
The Juice Jab	0	0	0	Box
T. Rogers vs Y. Yamamoto

If necessary	R	H	E
Alaskan	0	0	0	Box
Centauri	0	0	0	Box
G. Williams vs D. Cease

If necessary	R	H	E
St Louis	0	0	0	Box
The Juice Jab	0	0	0	Box
C. Sanchez vs C. Mize

If necessary	R	H	E
Alaskan	0	0	0	Box
Centauri	0	0	0	Box
G. Crochet vs J. deGrom