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):

Surly (95-55)

Elsinore (81-69)

Missing (77-73)

Cincinnati (70-80)

Finals

Game	TBD vs. TBD
1
2
3
4
5
6
7

Semifinals

Game

Semifinal One

Semifinal Two

Extra Innings	R	H	E
Cincinnati	3	7	1	Box
Surly	2	6	0	Box
WP - J.Misiorowski (1-0) LP - J.Ryan (0-1) HR: Cin: B.Baty (1) Cincinnati leads 1-0

	R	H	E
Missing	0	6	1	Box
Elsinore	5	8	0	Box
WP - D.Cease (1-0) LP - Miss BP (0-1) HR: Miss: A.Pages (1); Els: E.Duran 2 (2), H.Hernandez (1), C.Kelly (1) Elsinore leads 1-0

	R	H	E
Cincinnati	0	0	0	Box
Surly	0	0	0	Box
C. Schlittler vs S. Gray

	R	H	E
Missing	0	0	0	Box
Elsinore	0	0	0	Box
R. Weathers vs R. Dobnak

	R	H	E
Surly	0	0	0	Box
Cincinnati	0	0	0	Box
J. Luzardo vs S. Imanaga

	R	H	E
Elsinore	0	0	0	Box
Missing	0	0	0	Box
A. Nola vs N. Cameron

	R	H	E
Surly	0	0	0	Box
Cincinnati	0	0	0	Box
K. Harrison vs B. Elder

	R	H	E
Elsinore	0	0	0	Box
Missing	0	0	0	Box
Q. Mathews vs K. Gausman

If necessary	R	H	E
Surly	0	0	0	Box
Cincinnati	0	0	0	Box
C. Scott vs A. Abbott

If necessary	R	H	E
Elsinore	0	0	0	Box
Missing	0	0	0	Box
C. Sanchez vs K. Montero

If necessary	R	H	E
Cincinnati	0	0	0	Box
Surly	0	0	0	Box
J. Misiorowski vs J. Ryan

If necessary	R	H	E
Missing	0	0	0	Box
Elsinore	0	0	0	Box
Z. Wheeler vs D. Cease

If necessary	R	H	E
Cincinnati	0	0	0	Box
Surly	0	0	0	Box
C. Schlittler vs S. Gray

If necessary	R	H	E
Missing	0	0	0	Box
Elsinore	0	0	0	Box
R. Weathers vs R. Dobnak