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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 2017 Entrants (in order of seeding): 
          
            - Crumpton (86-64)
 
            - Kansas City (80-70)
 
            - Irish (73-77)
 
            - Mayan (69-81)
 
           
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           Semifinals - Mayan vs. Crumpton; Irish vs. Kansas City 
            
		  Mayan won 4 games to 1
		   Kansas City won 4 games to 3
             
          Finals - Mayan vs. Kansas City 
		  Season series: Kansas City won 4-2 
          2017 Gore Cup Winner - Mayan won 4 games to 1 
            
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                    Finals
                    
                      
      
        
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Mayan | 3 | 7 | 0 | Box  |  | Kansas City | 0 | 8 | 1 |  WP - C.Kershaw (1-0)  LP - J.Arrieta (0-1) HR: May: F.Freeman (1) Mayan leads 1-0 |   
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Mayan | 7 | 11 | 0 | Box  |  | Kansas City | 2 | 6 | 0 |  WP - R.Ray (1-0)  LP - M.Tanaka (0-1) HR: May: F.Freeman (2), N.Cruz (1) Mayan leads 2-0 |   
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Kansas City | 4 | 12 | 0 | Box  |  | Mayan | 7 | 5 | 0 |  WP - R.Hill (1-0)  LP - M.Garza (0-1) HR: KC: D.LeMahieu (1), F.Galvis (1) Mayan leads 3-0 |   
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Kansas City | 6 | 12 | 0 | Box  |  | Mayan | 0 | 3 | 0 |  WP - M.Leake (1-0)  LP - D.Salazar (0-1) HR: KC: B.Gardner (1), J.Abreu (1) Mayan leads 3-1 |   
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Kansas City | 3 | 13 | 0 | Box  |  | Mayan | 8 | 7 | 1 |  WP - B.Snell (1-0)  LP - K.Graveman (0-1) HR: May: N.Arenado (1), Z.Cozart 2 (2), J.Lowrie (1), S.Schebler (1) Mayan wins series 4-1 |   
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                    Semifinals
                    
                      
      
        
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          Semifinal One | 
          Semifinal Two | 
         
        
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Mayan | 6 | 11 | 0 | Box  |  | Crumpton | 3 | 8 | 0 |  WP - May BP (1-0)  LP - L.Lynn (0-1) HR: May: N.Cruz (1); Crum: A.Benintendi (1) Mayan leads 1-0 |      | 
          
          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Irish | 2 | 8 | 2 | Box  |  | Kansas City | 3 | 4 | 0 |  WP - J.Arrieta (1-0)  LP - J.deGrom (0-1) HR: none Kansas City leads 1-0 |      | 
         
        
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Mayan | 9 | 13 | 1 | Box  |  | Crumpton | 4 | 11 | 0 |  WP - R.Ray (1-0)  LP - Z.Davies (0-1) HR: May: S.Choo (1), F.Freeman (1), N.Cruz (2); Crum: M.Joyce (1) Mayan leads 2-0 |      | 
          
          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Irish | 3 | 9 | 0 | Box  |  | Kansas City | 1 | 5 | 0 |  WP - Iri BP (1-0)  LP - KC BP (0-1) HR: Iri: T.Mancini (1) Series tied 1-1 |      | 
         
        
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          | Extra Innings | R | H | E |   |  | Crumpton | 4 | 5 | 0 | Box  |  | Mayan | 3 | 6 | 0 |  WP - K.Gausman (1-0)  LP - May BP (1-1) HR: Crum: A.Ellis (1), T.Anderson (1); May: S.Choo (2), N.Cruz (3) Mayan leads 2-1 |      | 
          
          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Kansas City | 3 | 12 | 0 | Box  |  | Irish | 7 | 9 | 0 |  WP - D.Straily (1-0)  LP - Z.Godley (0-1) HR: Iri: B.McCann (1) Irish leads 2-1 |      | 
         
        
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Crumpton | 3 | 4 | 1 | Box  |  | Mayan | 4 | 7 | 1 |  WP - May BP (2-1)  LP - Crum BP (0-1) HR: May: S.Vogt 2 (2) Mayan leads 3-1 |      | 
          
          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Kansas City | 1 | 6 | 1 | Box  |  | Irish | 6 | 8 | 0 |  WP - D.Price (1-0)  LP - M.Leake (0-1) HR: Iri: E.Gattis (1), J.Mercer (1) Irish leads 3-1 |      | 
         
        
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Crumpton | 3 | 11 | 0 | Box  |  | Mayan | 4 | 9 | 1 |  WP - B.Snell (1-0)  LP - Crum BP (0-2) HR: Crum: E.Rosario (1); May: Z.Cozart (1) Mayan wins series 4-1 |      | 
          
          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Kansas City | 5 | 12 | 0 | Box  |  | Irish | 4 | 6 | 0 |  WP - K.Graveman (1-0)  LP - A.Miranda (0-1) HR: Iri: S.Marte (1), J.Mercer (2) Irish leads 3-2 |      | 
         
        
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Irish | 2 | 6 | 1 | Box  |  | Kansas City | 3 | 11 | 1 |  WP - J.Arrieta (2-0)  LP - J.deGrom (0-2) HR: Iri: E.Suarez (1); KC: C.Beltran (1) Series tied 3-3 |      | 
         
        
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Irish | 5 | 11 | 1 | Box  |  | Kansas City | 6 | 10 | 0 |  WP - KC BP (1-1)  LP - H.Ryu (0-1) HR: Iri: A.Duvall (1), J.Mercer (3); KC: J.Abreu (1), H.Kendrick 2 (2) Kansas City wins series 4-3 |      | 
         
        
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