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):

Omaha (86-64)

Wrigleyville (81-69)

Indy (75-75)

Lake Michigan (73-77)

Finals

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

Semifinals

Game

Semifinal One

Semifinal Two

	R	H	E
Lake Michigan	4	5	0	Box
Omaha	5	6	1	Box
WP - Oma BP (1-0) LP - J.Ryan (0-1) HR: none Omaha leads 1-0

	R	H	E
Indy	1	4	3	Box
Wrigleyville	5	8	0	Box
WP - R.Johnson (1-0) LP - Ind BP (0-1) HR: none Wrigleyville leads 1-0

	R	H	E
Lake Michigan	0	0	0	Box
Omaha	0	0	0	Box
B. Miller vs N. McLean

	R	H	E
Indy	0	0	0	Box
Wrigleyville	0	0	0	Box
J. Misiorowski vs C. Sale

	R	H	E
Omaha	0	0	0	Box
Lake Michigan	0	0	0	Box
T. Bibee vs T. Bradley

	R	H	E
Wrigleyville	0	0	0	Box
Indy	0	0	0	Box
J. Assad vs K. Anderson

	R	H	E
Omaha	0	0	0	Box
Lake Michigan	0	0	0	Box
M. Gore vs J. Taillon

	R	H	E
Wrigleyville	0	0	0	Box
Indy	0	0	0	Box
D. Anderson vs H. Brown

If necessary	R	H	E
Omaha	0	0	0	Box
Lake Michigan	0	0	0	Box
N. Martinez vs K. Gausman

If necessary	R	H	E
Wrigleyville	0	0	0	Box
Indy	0	0	0	Box
C. Rodon vs L. Gilbert

If necessary	R	H	E
Lake Michigan	0	0	0	Box
Omaha	0	0	0	Box
J. Ryan vs B. Woo

If necessary	R	H	E
Indy	0	0	0	Box
Wrigleyville	0	0	0	Box
T. Skubal vs R. Johnson

If necessary	R	H	E
Lake Michigan	0	0	0	Box
Omaha	0	0	0	Box
B. Miller vs N. McLean

If necessary	R	H	E
Indy	0	0	0	Box
Wrigleyville	0	0	0	Box
J. Misiorowski vs C. Sale