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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 2021 Entrants (in order of seeding): 
          
            - Lexington (89-61)
 
            - Sixteen Mile Stand (76-74)
 
            - California (72-78)
 
            - KC (72-78)
 
           
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           Semifinals - KC vs. Lexington; California vs. Sixteen Mile Stand 
            
		  KC won 4 games to 1
		   California won 4 games to 1
             
          Finals - KC vs. California 
		  Season series: California won 5-1 
          2021 Gore Cup Winner - KC won 4 games to 1 
            
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                    Finals
                    
                      
      
        
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          | Extra Innings | R | H | E |   |  | KC | 4 | 8 | 1 | Box  |  | California | 5 | 9 | 0 |  WP - M.Pineda (1-0)  LP - KC BP (0-1) HR: KC: B.Bichette (1) California leads 1-0 |   
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | KC | 11 | 10 | 1 | Box  |  | California | 3 | 6 | 2 |  WP - C.Hernandez (1-0)  LP - G.Cole (0-1) HR: KC: B.Bichette (2), T.Hernandez (1), T.Mancini (1); Cal: D.Carlson (1), T.O'Neill (1) Series tied 1-1 |   
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | California | 1 | 5 | 2 | Box  |  | KC | 10 | 9 | 0 |  WP - K.Freeland (1-0)  LP - K.Allard (0-1) HR: KC: P.Alonso (1), O.Narvaez (1) KC leads 2-1 |   
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          | Extra Innings | R | H | E |   |  | California | 3 | 9 | 1 | Box  |  | KC | 4 | 6 | 0 |  WP - T.Megill (1-0)  LP - Cal BP (0-1) HR: KC: F.Schwindel (1) KC leads 3-1 |   
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | California | 3 | 5 | 1 | Box  |  | KC | 10 | 10 | 0 |  WP - KC BP (1-1)  LP - P.Pitcher (0-1) HR: Cal: J.Polanco (1); KC: T.Hernandez (2), F.Schwindel (2) KC wins series 4-1 |   
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          Semifinal One | 
          Semifinal Two | 
         
        
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | KC | 10 | 14 | 0 | Box  |  | Lexington | 7 | 8 | 1 |  WP - KC BP (1-0)  LP - W.Buehler (0-1) HR: KC: B.Bichette (1), P.Alonso (1), J.Harrison (1); Lex: F.Lindor (1), E.Escobar (1) KC leads 1-0 |      | 
          
          |   | R | H | E |   |  | California | 4 | 7 | 0 | Box  |  | Sixteen Mile Stand | 2 | 4 | 0 |  WP - J.deGrom (1-0)  LP - SMS BP (0-1) HR: Cal: E.Hernandez (1), J.Abreu (1) California leads 1-0 |      | 
         
        
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | KC | 2 | 8 | 0 | Box  |  | Lexington | 6 | 9 | 1 |  WP - F.Peralta (1-0)  LP - KC BP (1-1) HR: Lex: S.Marte (1), C.Blackmon (1), G.Springer (1), J.McCann (1) Series tied 1-1 |      | 
          
          |   | R | H | E |   |  | California | 3 | 9 | 1 | Box  |  | Sixteen Mile Stand | 4 | 8 | 0 |  WP - L.Castillo (1-0)  LP - M.Pineda (0-1) HR: Cal: C.Hernandez (1); SMS: J.Winker (1) Series tied 1-1 |      | 
         
        
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Lexington | 2 | 8 | 3 | Box  |  | KC | 4 | 7 | 0 |  WP - K.Freeland (1-0)  LP - K.Gausman (0-1) HR: Lex: G.Springer (2), M.Chapman (1); KC: J.Cronenworth (1), P.Alonso (2) KC leads 2-1 |      | 
          
          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Sixteen Mile Stand | 1 | 4 | 2 | Box  |  | California | 7 | 16 | 0 |  WP - M.Scherzer (1-0)  LP - J.Odorizzi (0-1) HR: Cal: R.Mountcastle (1), M.Stassi (1) California leads 2-1 |      | 
         
        
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Lexington | 4 | 13 | 0 | Box  |  | KC | 6 | 11 | 0 |  WP - KC BP (2-1)  LP - B.Ober (0-1) HR: Lex: A.Duvall (1); KC: P.Alonso (3), F.Schwindel (1) KC leads 3-1 |      | 
          
          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Sixteen Mile Stand | 4 | 7 | 0 | Box  |  | California | 6 | 10 | 2 |  WP - Cal BP (1-0)  LP - SMS BP (0-2) HR: SMS: C.Santana (1); Cal: T.O'Neill (1), A.Bregman (1), R.Mountcastle (2) California leads 3-1 |      | 
         
        
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Lexington | 4 | 5 | 3 | Box  |  | KC | 7 | 11 | 0 |  WP - KC BP (3-1)  LP - W.Crowe (0-1) HR: KC: T.Mancini (1), P.Wisdom (1), O.Narvaez (1) KC wins series 4-1 |      | 
          
          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Sixteen Mile Stand | 2 | 4 | 0 | Box  |  | California | 4 | 8 | 2 |  WP - Cal BP (2-0)  LP - SMS BP (0-3) HR: Cal: T.O'Neill (2), M.Zunino (1), J.Polanco (1) California wins series 4-1 |      | 
         
        
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