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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):

Cincinnati (82-68)
Royal Flush (80-70)
Quirk (78-72)
St. Louis (75-75)

Semifinals - St. Louis vs. Cincinnati; Quirk vs. Royal Flush

Cincinnati won 4 games to 2

Quirk won 4 games to 1

Finals - Quirk vs. Cincinnati

Season series: Cincinnati won 9-3

2018 Gore Cup Winner - Quirk won 4 games to 2

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Finals

Game

Quirk vs. Cincinnati

1

Extra Innings	R	H	E
Quirk	2	11	1	Box
Cincinnati	3	4	0	Box
WP - J.Verlander (1-0) LP - J.Taillon (0-1) HR: Quir: D.Dietrich (1), N.Williams (1); Cin: C.Yelich (1) Cincinnati leads 1-0

2

	R	H	E
Quirk	3	5	0	Box
Cincinnati	0	6	1	Box
WP - D.Rodriguez (1-0) LP - Cin BP (0-1) HR: none Series tied 1-1

3

	R	H	E
Cincinnati	5	8	1	Box
Quirk	4	4	2	Box
WP - J.Happ (1-0) LP - W.Buehler (0-1) HR: Cin: S.Piscotty (1); Quir: Y.Alonso (1) Cincinnati leads 2-1

4

Extra Innings	R	H	E
Cincinnati	4	11	0	Box
Quirk	5	5	1	Box
WP - S.Strasburg (1-0) LP - T.Cahill (0-1) HR: Cin: C.Yelich (2), B.Crawford (1) Series tied 2-2

5

	R	H	E
Cincinnati	2	9	0	Box
Quirk	3	9	1	Box
WP - Quir BP (1-0) LP - Cin BP (0-2) HR: Quir: J.Ramirez (1) Quirk leads 3-2

6

	R	H	E
Quirk	4	11	2	Box
Cincinnati	3	7	0	Box
WP - J.Taillon (1-1) LP - J.Verlander (1-1) HR: Quir: J.Alfaro (1) Quirk wins series 4-2

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Semifinals

Game

Semifinal One

Semifinal Two

1

	R	H	E
St. Louis	4	6	2	Box
Cincinnati	5	9	2	Box
WP - Cin BP (1-0) LP - M.Scherzer (0-1) HR: StL: A.Simmons (1); Cin: F.Freeman (1) Cincinnati leads 1-0

	R	H	E
Quirk	6	15	1	Box
Royal Flush	3	3	0	Box
WP - Quir BP (1-0) LP - J.Berrios (0-1) HR: Quir: R.Devers (1), I.Happ (1); RF: A.Judge (1), W.Flores (1) Quirk leads 1-0

2

	R	H	E
St. Louis	1	6	2	Box
Cincinnati	4	9	0	Box
WP - P.Corbin (1-0) LP - StL BP (0-1) HR: Cin: D.Peralta (1), F.Freeman (2) Cincinnati leads 2-0

	R	H	E
Quirk	7	7	0	Box
Royal Flush	4	11	0	Box
WP - D.Rodriguez (1-0) LP - R.Porcello (0-1) HR: Quir: J.Ramirez (1); RF: R.Guzman 3 (3) Quirk leads 2-0

3

	R	H	E
Cincinnati	3	7	2	Box
St. Louis	4	6	0	Box
WP - K.Freeland (1-0) LP - T.Cahill (0-1) HR: Cin: F.Freeman (3) Cincinnati leads 2-1

	R	H	E
Royal Flush	2	8	2	Box
Quirk	4	10	0	Box
WP - W.Buehler (1-0) LP - RF BP (0-1) HR: none Quirk leads 3-0

4

	R	H	E
Cincinnati	4	11	2	Box
St. Louis	2	14	0	Box
WP - C.Buchholz (1-0) LP - StL BP (0-2) HR: Cin: C.Taylor (1), C.Yelich (1), S.Piscotty (1) Cincinnati leads 3-1

	R	H	E
Royal Flush	6	9	2	Box
Quirk	3	4	0	Box
WP - RF BP (1-1) LP - S.Strasburg (0-1) HR: RF: A.Romine (1); Quir: A.Rosario (1) Quirk leads 3-1

5

	R	H	E
Cincinnati	3	7	2	Box
St. Louis	5	10	2	Box
WP - T.Roark (1-0) LP - Cin BP (1-1) HR: StL: J.Schoop (1), C.Gonzalez (1) Cincinnati leads 3-2

	R	H	E
Royal Flush	5	9	2	Box
Quirk	7	11	0	Box
WP - Quir BP (2-0) LP - J.Gant (0-1) HR: RF: G.Springer (1); Quir: J.Gyorko (1) Quirk wins series 4-1

6

	R	H	E
St. Louis	1	4	4	Box
Cincinnati	5	8	0	Box
WP - J.Verlander (1-0) LP - M.Scherzer (0-2) HR: Cin: D.Peralta (2) Cincinnati wins series 4-2

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