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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 2014 Entrants (in order of seeding):

Venice Beach (86-65)
Hanoi (81-69)
Friendly (75-75)
Banta Inn (72-78)

Semifinals - Banta Inn vs. Venice Beach; Friendly vs. Hanoi

Banta Inn won 4 games to 2

Friendly won 4 games to 1

Finals - Banta Inn vs. Friendly

Season series: Friendly 8-4

2014 Gore Cup Winner - Friendly won 4 games to 2

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Finals

Game

Banta Inn vs. Friendly

1

	R	H	E
Banta Inn	3	13	1	Box
Friendly	5	11	0	Box
WP - G.Richards (1-0) LP - T.Roark (0-1) HR: BI: J.Mauer (1); Frnd: J.Martinez (1) Friendly leads 1-0

2

	R	H	E
Banta Inn	2	9	2	Box
Friendly	4	6	0	Box
WP - J.Lester (1-0) LP - BI BP (0-1) HR: Frnd: J.Harrison (1) Friendly leads 2-0

3

	R	H	E
Friendly	4	8	2	Box
Banta Inn	8	13	0	Box
WP - J.Paxton (1-0) LP - C.Carrasco (0-1) HR: Frnd: J.Martinez (2); BI: M.Kemp (1), A.Ramirez (1), B.Moss (1) Friendly leads 2-1

4

	R	H	E
Friendly	1	5	0	Box
Banta Inn	3	9	2	Box
WP - M.Pineda (1-0) LP - Frnd BP (0-1) HR: none Series tied 2-2

5

Extra Innings	R	H	E
Friendly	8	9	1	Box
Banta Inn	7	15	1	Box
WP - Frnd BP (1-1) LP - BI BP (0-2) HR: Frnd: F.Freeman (1), J.Martinez (3), J.Harrison (2), M.Cabrera 2 (2); BI: M.Kemp 2 (3), B.Zobrist (1) Friendly leads 3-2

6

	R	H	E
Banta Inn	2	8	3	Box
Friendly	3	6	0	Box
WP - G.Richards (2-0) LP - BI BP (0-3) HR: BI: B.Moss (2) Friendly wins series 4-2

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Semifinals

Game

Semifinal One

Semifinal Two

1

	R	H	E
Banta Inn	2	6	3	Box
Venice Beach	6	10	0	Box
WP - D.Price (1-0) LP - BI BP (0-1) HR: BI: C.Granderson (1); VB: A.McCutchen (1), S.Perez (1), E.Hosmer (1) Venice Beach leads 1-0

	R	H	E
Friendly	6	7	2	Box
Hanoi	2	7	0	Box
WP - G.Richards (1-0) LP - M.Bumgarner (0-1) HR: Frnd: J.Martinez (1); Han: M.Adams (1) Friendly leads 1-0

2

	R	H	E
Banta Inn	2	9	1	Box
Venice Beach	7	8	3	Box
WP - G.Cole (1-0) LP - C.Wilson (0-1) HR: VB: C.Crawford (1), A.McCutchen (2) Venice Beach leads 2-0

Extra Innings	R	H	E
Friendly	2	10	0	Box
Hanoi	3	6	0	Box
WP - M.Latos (1-0) LP - J.Lester (0-1) HR: none Series tied 1-1

3

	R	H	E
Venice Beach	4	13	2	Box
Banta Inn	5	9	1	Box
WP - J.Paxton (1-0) LP - M.Gonzalez (0-1) HR: none Venice Beach leads 2-1

	R	H	E
Hanoi	1	10	0	Box
Friendly	2	10	0	Box
WP - C.Carrasco (1-0) LP - Han BP (0-1) HR: Han: S.Marte (1), K.Seager (1) Friendly leads 2-1

4

Extra Innings	R	H	E
Venice Beach	3	10	1	Box
Banta Inn	4	11	0	Box
WP - M.Pineda (1-0) LP - VB BP (0-1) HR: VB: A.McCutchen (3); BI: A.Gordon (1), A.Ramirez (1) Series tied 2-2

Extra Innings	R	H	E
Hanoi	2	8	0	Box
Friendly	3	9	0	Box
WP - Frnd BP (1-0) LP - Han BP (0-2) HR: Frnd: A.Ramirez (1) Friendly leads 3-1

5

	R	H	E
Venice Beach	2	5	0	Box
Banta Inn	3	5	1	Box
WP - B.Colon (1-0) LP - VB BP (0-2) HR: VB: K.Morales (1); BI: A.Gordon (2) Banta Inn leads 3-2

	R	H	E
Hanoi	0	8	0	Box
Friendly	2	4	0	Box
WP - B.McCarthy (1-0) LP - Han BP (0-3) HR: Han: J.Abreu (1); Frnd: J.Saltalamacchia (1) Friendly wins series 4-1

6

	R	H	E
Banta Inn	6	8	0	Box
Venice Beach	4	8	0	Box
WP - T.Roark (1-0) LP - D.Price (1-1) HR: BI: C.Granderson (2) Banta Inn wins series 4-2

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