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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 2018 Entrants (in order of seeding): 
          
            - Guttenberg (87-64)
 
            - Ruth and Gehrig (86-64)
 
            - France (70-80)
 
            - Paducah (70-80)
 
           
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           Semifinals - Paducah vs. Guttenberg; France vs. Ruth and Gehrig 
            
		  Guttenberg won 4 games to 2
		   France won 4 games to 2
             
          Finals - France vs. Guttenberg 
		  Season series: Guttenberg won 9-3 
          2018 Gore Cup Winner - Guttenberg won 4 games to 2 
            
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                    Finals
                    
                      
      
        
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | France | 4 | 10 | 2 | Box  |  | Guttenberg | 3 | 7 | 3 |  WP - M.Scherzer (1-0)  LP - J.Gray (0-1) HR: none France leads 1-0 |   
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | France | 2 | 5 | 0 | Box  |  | Guttenberg | 4 | 9 | 3 |  WP - D.Keuchel (1-0)  LP - Fra BP (0-1) HR: Fra: D.Dahl (1); Gut: S.Gennett (1), A.Frazier (1) Series tied 1-1 |   
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Guttenberg | 6 | 11 | 0 | Box  |  | France | 2 | 4 | 0 |  WP - Gut BP (1-0)  LP - K.Gausman (0-1) HR: Gut: D.Peralta (1) Guttenberg leads 2-1 |   
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Guttenberg | 2 | 11 | 0 | Box  |  | France | 3 | 8 | 2 |  WP - K.Gibson (1-0)  LP - J.deGrom (0-1) HR: Gut: Y.Alonso (1); Fra: Y.Grandal (1) Series tied 2-2 |   
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Guttenberg | 7 | 10 | 0 | Box  |  | France | 3 | 10 | 0 |  WP - C.Kluber (1-0)  LP - M.Leake (0-1) HR: Gut: D.Peralta 2 (3), K.Davis (1), Y.Alonso (2); Fra: D.Dahl (2), R.Braun (1), F.Galvis (1) Guttenberg leads 3-2 |   
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | France | 3 | 6 | 1 | Box  |  | Guttenberg | 5 | 11 | 2 |  WP - J.Gray (1-1)  LP - Fra BP (0-2) HR: Gut: K.Davis 2 (3), M.Maldonado (1) Guttenberg wins series 4-2 |   
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                    Semifinals
                    
                      
      
        
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          Semifinal One | 
          Semifinal Two | 
         
        
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Paducah | 1 | 4 | 5 | Box  |  | Guttenberg | 6 | 6 | 0 |  WP - J.Gray (1-0)  LP - G.Marquez (0-1) HR: none Guttenberg leads 1-0 |      | 
          
          |   | R | H | E |   |  | France | 5 | 12 | 0 | Box  |  | Ruth and Gehrig | 8 | 13 | 1 |  WP - RaG BP (1-0)  LP - M.Scherzer (0-1) HR: Fra: Y.Grandal (1); RaG: M.Carpenter 3 (3), G.Polanco (1) Ruth and Gehrig leads 1-0 |      | 
         
        
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Paducah | 7 | 6 | 0 | Box  |  | Guttenberg | 4 | 8 | 2 |  WP - M.Clevinger (1-0)  LP - D.Keuchel (0-1) HR: Pad: E.Inciarte (1); Gut: K.Davis (1) Series tied 1-1 |      | 
          
          |   | R | H | E |   |  | France | 7 | 15 | 0 | Box  |  | Ruth and Gehrig | 3 | 6 | 0 |  WP - Fra BP (1-0)  LP - RaG BP (1-1) HR: Fra: D.Dahl (1), X.Bogaerts (1), J.Bauers (1) Series tied 1-1 |      | 
         
        
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Guttenberg | 9 | 6 | 0 | Box  |  | Paducah | 10 | 10 | 2 |  WP - Pad BP (1-0)  LP - E.Lauer (0-1) HR: Gut: A.Garcia (1), Y.Alonso 2 (2); Pad: M.Machado (1), R.Guzman (1) Paducah leads 2-1 |      | 
          
          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Ruth and Gehrig | 8 | 8 | 1 | Box  |  | France | 5 | 9 | 0 |  WP - RaG BP (2-1)  LP - K.Gausman (0-1) HR: RaG: M.Carpenter (4), S.Piscotty (1), S.Perez (1); Fra: X.Bogaerts (2), F.Freeman (1) Ruth and Gehrig leads 2-1 |      | 
         
        
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Guttenberg | 3 | 7 | 2 | Box  |  | Paducah | 2 | 7 | 0 |  WP - J.deGrom (1-0)  LP - Pad BP (1-1) HR: none Series tied 2-2 |      | 
          
          | Extra Innings | R | H | E |   |  | Ruth and Gehrig | 3 | 8 | 0 | Box  |  | France | 4 | 8 | 0 |  WP - K.Gibson (1-0)  LP - RaG BP (2-2) HR: RaG: J.Profar (1), S.Perez (2); Fra: F.Galvis (1), B.Zobrist (1) Series tied 2-2 |      | 
         
        
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Guttenberg | 7 | 13 | 1 | Box  |  | Paducah | 5 | 11 | 1 |  WP - Gut BP (1-0)  LP - Pad BP (1-2) HR: Gut: J.Segura (1), K.Davis (2), M.Franco (1); Pad: M.Muncy (1) Guttenberg leads 3-2 |      | 
          
          | Extra Innings | R | H | E |   |  | Ruth and Gehrig | 4 | 8 | 1 | Box  |  | France | 5 | 2 | 0 |  WP - M.Leake (1-0)  LP - N.Eovaldi (0-1) HR: RaG: M.Carpenter (5), M.Brantley (1) France leads 3-2 |      | 
         
        
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Paducah | 3 | 5 | 0 | Box  |  | Guttenberg | 4 | 8 | 1 |  WP - J.Gray (2-0)  LP - Pad BP (1-3) HR: Pad: C.Gonzalez (1), J.Lucroy (1); Gut: K.Davis (3), Y.Alonso (3) Guttenberg wins series 4-2 |      | 
          
          |   | R | H | E |   |  | France | 3 | 10 | 2 | Box  |  | Ruth and Gehrig | 1 | 10 | 0 |  WP - M.Scherzer (1-1)  LP - M.Mikolas (0-1) HR: Fra: Y.Grandal 2 (3); RaG: S.Piscotty (2) France wins series 4-2 |      | 
         
        
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