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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): 
          
            - Boar's (85-65)
 
            - Copenhagen (83-67)
 
            - Dusk till Dawn (79-71)
 
            - San Diego (75-75)
 
           
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           Semifinals - San Diego vs. Boar's; Dusk till Dawn vs. Copenhagen 
            
		  Boar's won 4 games to 0
		   Dusk till Dawn won 4 games to 3
             
          Finals - Dusk till Dawn vs. Boar's 
		  Season series: Tied 3-3 
          2017 Gore Cup Winner - Dusk till Dawn won 4 games to 1 
            
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                    Finals
                    
                      
      
        
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          Dusk till Dawn vs. Boar's | 
         
        
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          | Extra Innings | R | H | E |   |  | Dusk till Dawn | 5 | 5 | 1 | Box  |  | Boar's | 6 | 7 | 0 |  WP - BN BP (1-0)  LP - K.Hendricks (0-1) HR: DtD: M.Gonzalez (1); BN: J.Martinez (1), K.Calhoun (1), S.Gennett (1) Boar's leads 1-0 |   
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Dusk till Dawn | 8 | 12 | 0 | Box  |  | Boar's | 3 | 6 | 0 |  WP - C.Hamels (1-0)  LP - Z.Davies (0-1) HR: BN: J.Martinez (2) Series tied 1-1 |   
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Boar's | 0 | 4 | 0 | Box  |  | Dusk till Dawn | 5 | 6 | 1 |  WP - J.Gray (1-0)  LP - C.Carrasco (0-1) HR: DtD: A.Pollock 2 (2) Dusk till Dawn leads 2-1 |   
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Boar's | 4 | 11 | 0 | Box  |  | Dusk till Dawn | 5 | 12 | 0 |  WP - D.Duffy (1-0)  LP - BN BP (1-1) HR: BN: Y.Gurriel (1), S.Gennett (2); DtD: M.Margot (1), M.Moustakas (1), E.Gattis (1) Dusk till Dawn leads 3-1 |   
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          | Extra Innings | R | H | E |   |  | Boar's | 4 | 10 | 0 | Box  |  | Dusk till Dawn | 5 | 6 | 0 |  WP - DtD BP (1-0)  LP - C.Stratton (0-1) HR: none Dusk till Dawn wins series 4-1 |   
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                    Semifinals
                    
                      
      
        
          | Game | 
          Semifinal One | 
          Semifinal Two | 
         
        
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | San Diego | 1 | 7 | 0 | Box  |  | Boar's | 3 | 6 | 0 |  WP - K.Gausman (1-0)  LP - SD BP (0-1) HR: SD: T.Story (1); BN: J.Martinez (1), S.Gennett (1) Boar's leads 1-0 |      | 
          
          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Dusk till Dawn | 2 | 12 | 0 | Box  |  | Copenhagen | 4 | 10 | 2 |  WP - J.Verlander (1-0)  LP - DtD BP (0-1) HR: DtD: E.Gattis (1); Cop: B.Dozier (1), I.Desmond (1) Copenhagen leads 1-0 |      | 
         
        
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | San Diego | 2 | 4 | 4 | Box  |  | Boar's | 4 | 9 | 0 |  WP - Z.Davies (1-0)  LP - SD BP (0-2) HR: BN: S.Gennett (2) Boar's leads 2-0 |      | 
          
          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Dusk till Dawn | 5 | 13 | 0 | Box  |  | Copenhagen | 4 | 12 | 0 |  WP - C.Hamels (1-0)  LP - T.Roark (0-1) HR: DtD: M.Moustakas (1); Cop: M.Carpenter (1) Series tied 1-1 |      | 
         
        
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Boar's | 4 | 12 | 0 | Box  |  | San Diego | 2 | 7 | 0 |  WP - C.Carrasco (1-0)  LP - L.Severino (0-1) HR: none Boar's leads 3-0 |      | 
          
          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Copenhagen | 3 | 7 | 0 | Box  |  | Dusk till Dawn | 9 | 12 | 0 |  WP - J.Gray (1-0)  LP - M.Estrada (0-1) HR: Cop: J.Bruce (1); DtD: M.Moustakas (2), J.Reddick (1) Dusk till Dawn leads 2-1 |      | 
         
        
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Boar's | 7 | 11 | 0 | Box  |  | San Diego | 4 | 7 | 0 |  WP - C.Kluber (1-0)  LP - A.Wood (0-1) HR: BN: J.Donaldson (1), Y.Gurriel (1), W.Castillo 2 (2); SD: L.Morrison (1), M.Kemp (1) Boar's wins series 4-0 |      | 
          
          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Copenhagen | 6 | 8 | 0 | Box  |  | Dusk till Dawn | 2 | 9 | 2 |  WP - A.Cobb (1-0)  LP - M.Foltynewicz (0-1) HR: Cop: B.Dozier (2), C.Blackmon (1), J.Mercer (1) Series tied 2-2 |      | 
         
        
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Copenhagen | 4 | 8 | 0 | Box  |  | Dusk till Dawn | 5 | 14 | 0 |  WP - DtD BP (1-1)  LP - Cop BP (0-1) HR: Cop: B.Buxton (1) Dusk till Dawn leads 3-2 |      | 
         
        
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          | Extra Innings | R | H | E |   |  | Dusk till Dawn | 2 | 7 | 2 | Box  |  | Copenhagen | 3 | 4 | 3 |  WP - J.Verlander (2-0)  LP - K.Hendricks (0-1) HR: none Series tied 3-3 |      | 
         
        
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Dusk till Dawn | 5 | 13 | 0 | Box  |  | Copenhagen | 2 | 5 | 0 |  WP - C.Hamels (2-0)  LP - T.Roark (0-2) HR: DtD: A.Pollock (1), E.Hosmer (1); Cop: Y.Molina (1) Dusk till Dawn wins series 4-3 |      | 
         
        
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