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):

Yorktown (86-64)

Claustrophobic (77-73)

New York (76-74)

K.G.B. (76-74)

Finals

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

Semifinals

Game

Semifinal One

Semifinal Two

	R	H	E
K.G.B.	4	13	0	Box
Yorktown	3	8	0	Box
WP - KGB BP (1-0) LP - York BP (0-1) HR: KGB: P.Alonso (1), M.Busch (1), A.Kirk (1) K.G.B. leads 1-0

	R	H	E
New York	2	2	1	Box
Claustrophobic	3	14	1	Box
WP - H.Brown (1-0) LP - NY BP (0-1) HR: Clst: F.Tatis 2 (2), L.Garcia (1) Claustrophobic leads 1-0

	R	H	E
K.G.B.	0	0	0	Box
Yorktown	0	0	0	Box
J. Wrobleski vs S. Drohan

	R	H	E
New York	0	0	0	Box
Claustrophobic	0	0	0	Box
M. Gore vs K. Harrison

	R	H	E
Yorktown	0	0	0	Box
K.G.B.	0	0	0	Box
J. Misiorowski vs S. Gray

	R	H	E
Claustrophobic	0	0	0	Box
New York	0	0	0	Box
R. Suarez vs C. Scott

	R	H	E
Yorktown	0	0	0	Box
K.G.B.	0	0	0	Box
K. Anderson vs N. Cameron

	R	H	E
Claustrophobic	0	0	0	Box
New York	0	0	0	Box
R. Sasaki vs E. Hancock

If necessary	R	H	E
Yorktown	0	0	0	Box
K.G.B.	0	0	0	Box
P. Messick vs M. Boyd

If necessary	R	H	E
Claustrophobic	0	0	0	Box
New York	0	0	0	Box
J. Soriano vs B. Ashcraft

If necessary	R	H	E
K.G.B.	0	0	0	Box
Yorktown	0	0	0	Box
T. Phillips vs Y. Yamamoto

If necessary	R	H	E
New York	0	0	0	Box
Claustrophobic	0	0	0	Box
J. Ryan vs H. Brown

If necessary	R	H	E
K.G.B.	0	0	0	Box
Yorktown	0	0	0	Box
J. Wrobleski vs S. Drohan

If necessary	R	H	E
New York	0	0	0	Box
Claustrophobic	0	0	0	Box
M. Gore vs K. Harrison