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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): 
          
            - Megacity (81-69)
 
            - Kentucky (79-71)
 
            - North Carolina (76-74)
 
            - This Is (76-74)
 
           
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           Semifinals - This Is vs. Megacity; North Carolina vs. Kentucky 
            
		  Megacity won 4 games to 0
		   Kentucky won 4 games to 2
             
          Finals - Kentucky vs. Megacity 
		  Season series: Megacity won 4-2 
          2018 Gore Cup Winner - Megacity won 4 games to 2 
            
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                    Finals
                    
                      
      
        
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          Kentucky vs. Megacity | 
         
        
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          | Extra Innings | R | H | E |   |  | Kentucky | 2 | 7 | 2 | Box  |  | Megacity | 3 | 8 | 2 |  WP - C.Carrasco (1-0)  LP - Ken BP (0-1) HR: Ken: F.Lindor (1); Mega: A.Romine (1) Megacity leads 1-0 |   
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Kentucky | 4 | 9 | 0 | Box  |  | Megacity | 8 | 12 | 2 |  WP - Mega BP (1-0)  LP - Ken BP (0-2) HR: Mega: M.Chapman 2 (2), M.Machado (1) Megacity leads 2-0 |   
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Megacity | 1 | 4 | 0 | Box  |  | Kentucky | 2 | 5 | 0 |  WP - M.Boyd (1-0)  LP - J.Flaherty (0-1) HR: none Megacity leads 2-1 |   
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Megacity | 5 | 10 | 2 | Box  |  | Kentucky | 4 | 8 | 2 |  WP - Mega BP (2-0)  LP - Ken BP (0-3) HR: Mega: M.Machado (2), E.Encarnacion (1), H.Renfroe (1); Ken: C.Santana (1) Megacity leads 3-1 |   
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Megacity | 6 | 10 | 0 | Box  |  | Kentucky | 8 | 12 | 1 |  WP - Ken BP (1-3)  LP - T.Richards (0-1) HR: Mega: C.Gonzalez (1); Ken: F.Lindor (2), A.Benintendi (1) Megacity leads 3-2 |   
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Kentucky | 3 | 9 | 3 | Box  |  | Megacity | 6 | 10 | 1 |  WP - C.Carrasco (2-0)  LP - G.Cole (0-1) HR: Ken: F.Lindor (3), M.Brantley (1); Mega: P.DeJong (1) Megacity wins series 4-2 |   
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                    Semifinals
                    
                      
      
        
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          Semifinal One | 
          Semifinal Two | 
         
        
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | This Is | 3 | 8 | 0 | Box  |  | Megacity | 5 | 10 | 1 |  WP - C.Carrasco (1-0)  LP - This BP (0-1) HR: Mega: J.Schoop (1), G.Sanchez (1) Megacity leads 1-0 |      | 
          
          | Extra Innings | R | H | E |   |  | North Carolina | 2 | 10 | 0 | Box  |  | Kentucky | 3 | 13 | 0 |  WP - G.Cole (1-0)  LP - NC BP (0-1) HR: none Kentucky leads 1-0 |      | 
         
        
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | This Is | 2 | 12 | 1 | Box  |  | Megacity | 6 | 13 | 0 |  WP - L.Castillo (1-0)  LP - N.Syndergaard (0-1) HR: Mega: P.DeJong (1) Megacity leads 2-0 |      | 
          
          |   | R | H | E |   |  | North Carolina | 3 | 8 | 5 | Box  |  | Kentucky | 6 | 11 | 0 |  WP - Ken BP (1-0)  LP - M.Montgomery (0-1) HR: none Kentucky leads 2-0 |      | 
         
        
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Megacity | 5 | 10 | 1 | Box  |  | This Is | 2 | 4 | 1 |  WP - J.Flaherty (1-0)  LP - J.Paxton (0-1) HR: Mega: H.Renfroe (1), A.Romine (1) Megacity leads 3-0 |      | 
          
          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Kentucky | 3 | 7 | 2 | Box  |  | North Carolina | 5 | 4 | 1 |  WP - M.Foltynewicz (1-0)  LP - M.Boyd (0-1) HR: Ken: B.Gardner (1); NC: R.Odor (1) Kentucky leads 2-1 |      | 
         
        
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Megacity | 4 | 9 | 3 | Box  |  | This Is | 3 | 8 | 0 |  WP - Z.Godley (1-0)  LP - This BP (0-2) HR: Mega: M.Machado (1), E.Encarnacion (1), J.Schoop (2); This: J.Baez (1), J.Camargo (1) Megacity wins series 4-0 |      | 
          
          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Kentucky | 9 | 12 | 0 | Box  |  | North Carolina | 4 | 8 | 0 |  WP - Ken BP (2-0)  LP - I.Nova (0-1) HR: Ken: M.Betts (1), V.Martinez 2 (2) Kentucky leads 3-1 |      | 
         
        
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Kentucky | 3 | 7 | 2 | Box  |  | North Carolina | 4 | 10 | 0 |  WP - J.Odorizzi (1-0)  LP - Ken BP (2-1) HR: Ken: C.Santana (1) Kentucky leads 3-2 |      | 
         
        
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | North Carolina | 3 | 5 | 0 | Box  |  | Kentucky | 5 | 14 | 2 |  WP - G.Cole (2-0)  LP - NC BP (0-2) HR: Ken: M.Betts (2), J.Turner (1), B.Gardner (2) Kentucky wins series 4-2 |      | 
         
        
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