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):

Stalag (87-63)

Exsangui (85-65)

Georgetown (82-68)

Upstream (69-81)

Finals

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

Semifinals

Game

Semifinal One

Semifinal Two

	R	H	E
Upstream	4	8	2	Box
Stalag	3	7	0	Box
WP - T.Skubal (1-0) LP - J.Misiorowski (0-1) HR: Ups: D.Canzone (1), G.Conine (1); Stal: C.DeLauter (1) Upstream leads 1-0

	R	H	E
Georgetown	3	7	1	Box
Exsangui	5	9	0	Box
WP - C.Schlittler (1-0) LP - J.Ryan (0-1) HR: Grg: J.Soto (1); Exs: K.McGonigle (1), R.Devers (1) Exsangui leads 1-0

	R	H	E
Upstream	0	0	0	Box
Stalag	0	0	0	Box
H. Brown vs P. Messick

	R	H	E
Georgetown	0	0	0	Box
Exsangui	0	0	0	Box
S. Ohtani vs J. Luzardo

	R	H	E
Stalag	0	0	0	Box
Upstream	0	0	0	Box
T. Melton vs W. Urena

	R	H	E
Exsangui	0	0	0	Box
Georgetown	0	0	0	Box
T. Mahle vs P. Tolle

	R	H	E
Stalag	0	0	0	Box
Upstream	0	0	0	Box
P. Lambert vs G. Klassen

	R	H	E
Exsangui	0	0	0	Box
Georgetown	0	0	0	Box
N. McLean vs C. Cavalli

If necessary	R	H	E
Stalag	0	0	0	Box
Upstream	0	0	0	Box
C. Early vs J. Ginn

If necessary	R	H	E
Exsangui	0	0	0	Box
Georgetown	0	0	0	Box
L. Henderson vs S. Burke

If necessary	R	H	E
Upstream	0	0	0	Box
Stalag	0	0	0	Box
T. Skubal vs J. Misiorowski

If necessary	R	H	E
Georgetown	0	0	0	Box
Exsangui	0	0	0	Box
J. Ryan vs C. Schlittler

If necessary	R	H	E
Upstream	0	0	0	Box
Stalag	0	0	0	Box
H. Brown vs P. Messick

If necessary	R	H	E
Georgetown	0	0	0	Box
Exsangui	0	0	0	Box
S. Ohtani vs J. Luzardo