The Best of the Worst
The Bottom Feeder Open - playing for pride and a few bucks.
A small taste of post season baseball as the third and fourth place
teams get a chance to play a few more games. Teams are ranked
1-8, based on season record and play a 3-game quarterfinal series.
Winners are re-seeded and play a 3-game semifinal.
The two remaining teams square off in a best-of-five finals.
The winner receives a bonus of 500,000 Benchwarmer Bucks.
The runner-up gets 250,000.
2012 Finals: Area 51 (75-75) vs. Paris (79-71)
Season series: Area 51 won 5-1
2012 Winner - Paris 3 games to 2
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Finals
Game Area 51 vs. Paris
1
R H E Area 51 4 8 0 Box
Paris 8 10 0 WP - J.Vargas (1-0) LP - A51 BP (0-1) HR: Par: C.Granderson (1), E.Encarnacion (1), A.Dunn 2 (2) Paris leads 1-0
2
R H E Area 51 9 10 0 Box
Paris 3 9 1 WP - B.Anderson (1-0) LP - W.Chen (0-1) HR: A51: M.Holliday (1); Par: A.Rios (1), C.Granderson (2) Series tied 1-1
3
R H E Paris 5 5 0 Box
Area 51 2 5 0 WP - A.Cobb (1-0) LP - C.Sabathia (0-1) HR: Par: M.Morse (1) Paris leads 2-1
4
R H E Paris 2 7 0 Box
Area 51 4 11 0 WP - H.Kuroda (1-0) LP - Par BP (0-1) HR: Par: A.Rios (2), A.Dunn (3); A51: D.Wright (1), A.LaRoche (1) Series tied 2-2
5
R H E Area 51 1 9 2 Box
Paris 6 9 0 WP - G.Floyd (1-0) LP - J.Shields (0-1) HR: A51: J.Willingham (1); Par: C.Granderson (3), A.Dunn (4) Paris wins series 3-2
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Semifinals
Game Semifinal One Semifinal Two
1
R H E Louisville 5 5 0 Box
Paris 4 7 0 WP - Lou BP (1-0) LP - J.Karstens (0-1) HR: Par: R.Howard (1) Louisville leads 1-0
Extra Innings R H E Robin's 2 11 1 Box
Area 51 3 9 0 WP - J.Shields (1-0) LP - Rob BP (0-1) HR: Rob: G.Jones (1); A51: A.LaRoche (1) Area 51 leads 1-0
2
R H E Paris 12 14 2 Box
Louisville 3 7 2 WP - S.Marcum (1-0) LP - J.Collmenter (0-1) HR: Par: E.Encarnacion (1), A.Dunn 2 (2), R.Howard (2), E.Kratz (1); Lou: M.Moustakas (1), J.Jaso (1) Series tied 1-1
R H E Area 51 6 11 0 Box
Robin's 4 9 3 WP - B.Anderson (1-0) LP - B.Zito (0-1) HR: A51: M.Holliday (1); Rob: A.Hill (1) Area 51 wins series 2-0
3
R H E Louisville 6 12 0 Box
Paris 8 9 3 WP - J.Vargas (2-0) LP - S.Strasburg (1-1) HR: Lou: M.Moustakas (2); Par: C.Granderson (1), E.Encarnacion (2), A.Dunn (3), M.Morse (1) Paris wins series 2-1
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Quarterfinals
Game Quarterfinal One Quarterfinal Two
1
R H E Boston 2 10 0 Box
Paris 3 6 1 WP - J.Vargas (1-0) LP - Bos BP (0-1) HR: Bos: J.Hamilton (1) Paris leads 1-0
R H E Louisville 6 7 1 Box
Arkham 1 6 3 WP - S.Strasburg (1-0) LP - K.Millwood (0-1) HR: Lou: C.Gonzalez (1) Louisville leads 1-0
2
Extra Innings R H E Paris 4 6 0 Box
Boston 5 11 1 WP - J.Zimmermann (1-0) LP - Par BP (0-1) HR: Par: A.Rios (1) Series tied 1-1
R H E Arkham 2 7 0 Box
Louisville 3 4 0 WP - M.Latos (1-0) LP - I.Kennedy (0-1) HR: Ark: D.Uggla (1) Louisville wins series 2-0
3
R H E Boston 3 10 2 Box
Paris 7 9 0 WP - Par BP (1-1) LP - R.Oswalt (0-1) HR: Par: R.Howard (1) Paris wins series 2-1
Game Quarterfinal Three Quarterfinal Four
1
R H E California 3 5 1 Box
Area 51 5 9 1 WP - C.Sabathia (1-0) LP - C.Kershaw (0-1) HR: Cal: C.Pena (1); A51: A.LaRoche (1), D.Descalso (1) Area 51 leads 1-0
Extra Innings R H E Wall Street 5 8 0 Box
Robin's 4 7 2 WP - WS BP (1-0) LP - T.Hanson (0-1) HR: WS: A.Beltre (1); Rob: C.Jones (1) Wall Street leads 1-0
2
R H E Area 51 2 7 0 Box
California 7 8 2 WP - J.Weaver (1-0) LP - R.Dickey (0-1) HR: A51: T.Frazier (1); Cal: C.Hart (1) Series tied 1-1
R H E Robin's 3 10 0 Box
Wall Street 1 12 2 WP - C.Hamels (1-0) LP - WS BP (1-1) HR: Rob: Y.Cespedes (1) Series tied 1-1
3
R H E California 4 7 1 Box
Area 51 6 11 0 WP - H.Kuroda (1-0) LP - J.Parker (0-1) HR: Cal: M.Trout (1), K.Suzuki (1); A51: A.Pagan (1) Area 51 wins series 2-1
R H E Wall Street 1 5 1 Box
Robin's 8 10 0 WP - A.Griffin (1-0) LP - I.Nova (0-1) HR: Rob: J.Ellsbury (1) Robin's wins series 2-1
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