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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 2019 Entrants (in order of seeding): 
          
            - Almost (84-66)
 
            - Vicksburg (83-67)
 
            - Lexington (80-70)
 
            - Cache River (69-81)
 
           
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           Semifinals - Cache River vs. Almost; Lexington vs. Vicksburg 
            
		  Almost won 4 games to 2
		   Vicksburg won 4 games to 3
             
          Finals - Vicksburg vs. Almost 
		  Season series: Vicksburg won 7-5 
          2019 Gore Cup Winner - Almost won 4 games to 1 
            
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                    Finals
                    
                      
      
        
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Vicksburg | 4 | 11 | 0 | Box  |  | Almost | 2 | 7 | 0 |  WP - C.Morton (1-0)  LP - Alm BP (0-1) HR: Vick: J.McNeil (1); Alm: R.Acuna (1) Vicksburg leads 1-0 |   
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Vicksburg | 4 | 11 | 0 | Box  |  | Almost | 5 | 12 | 0 |  WP - A.Sanchez (1-0)  LP - Vick BP (0-1) HR: Vick: D.Murphy (1), M.Cabrera (1); Alm: P.Alonso (1) Series tied 1-1 |   
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Almost | 7 | 12 | 2 | Box  |  | Vicksburg | 4 | 5 | 2 |  WP - J.Ross (1-0)  LP - Vick BP (0-2) HR: Alm: R.Acuna (2), P.Alonso (2), E.Rosario (1), A.Aquino (1), M.Sano (1); Vick: M.Chapman 2 (2), R.McMahon (1) Almost leads 2-1 |   
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Almost | 5 | 11 | 0 | Box  |  | Vicksburg | 2 | 9 | 0 |  WP - Alm BP (1-1)  LP - Vick BP (0-3) HR: Alm: C.Blackmon (1), P.Alonso (3), A.Aquino (2), T.Murphy (1); Vick: J.McNeil (2), T.Edman (1) Almost leads 3-1 |   
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Almost | 7 | 13 | 3 | Box  |  | Vicksburg | 3 | 4 | 0 |  WP - Alm BP (2-1)  LP - D.Keuchel (0-1) HR: Alm: R.Acuna (3), C.Blackmon (2), P.Alonso (4), E.Rosario (2), A.Aquino (3); Vick: M.Garver (1) Almost wins series 4-1 |   
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                    Semifinals
                    
                      
      
        
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          Semifinal One | 
          Semifinal Two | 
         
        
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Cache River | 4 | 8 | 0 | Box  |  | Almost | 6 | 10 | 0 |  WP - Z.Davies (1-0)  LP - M.Clevinger (0-1) HR: CR: J.Bradley Jr. (1), E.Longoria (1); Alm: A.Aquino (1) Almost leads 1-0 |      | 
          
          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Lexington | 6 | 14 | 0 | Box  |  | Vicksburg | 4 | 9 | 1 |  WP - A.Wainwright (1-0)  LP - Vick BP (0-1) HR: Lex: J.Schoop (1), T.Turner (1), R.Grichuk (1), J.Turner (1); Vick: T.Pham (1), R.McMahon (1), M.Canha (1) Lexington leads 1-0 |      | 
         
        
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Cache River | 1 | 6 | 1 | Box  |  | Almost | 3 | 4 | 0 |  WP - A.Sanchez (1-0)  LP - M.Leake (0-1) HR: CR: E.Longoria (2); Alm: O.Narvaez (1) Almost leads 2-0 |      | 
          
          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Lexington | 4 | 8 | 2 | Box  |  | Vicksburg | 3 | 5 | 0 |  WP - Z.Gallen (1-0)  LP - Vick BP (0-2) HR: Lex: J.Abreu (1), J.Hicks (1) Lexington leads 2-0 |      | 
         
        
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Almost | 6 | 10 | 0 | Box  |  | Cache River | 9 | 12 | 2 |  WP - CR BP (1-0)  LP - J.Ross (0-1) HR: Alm: A.Aquino (2); CR: J.Bradley Jr. (2), N.Ahmed (1), A.Judge (1), M.Ozuna (1), E.Longoria (3) Almost leads 2-1 |      | 
          
          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Vicksburg | 4 | 8 | 0 | Box  |  | Lexington | 3 | 8 | 0 |  WP - A.Nola (1-0)  LP - C.Kershaw (0-1) HR: Vick: J.Pederson (1); Lex: A.Pujols (1), R.Nunez (1) Lexington leads 2-1 |      | 
         
        
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Almost | 3 | 13 | 0 | Box  |  | Cache River | 4 | 10 | 0 |  WP - J.Samardzija (1-0)  LP - Alm BP (0-1) HR: Alm: A.Aquino (3); CR: J.Bradley Jr. (3), C.Cron (1), Y.Molina (1) Series tied 2-2 |      | 
          
          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Vicksburg | 3 | 7 | 0 | Box  |  | Lexington | 4 | 14 | 1 |  WP - M.Mikolas (1-0)  LP - J.Paxton (0-1) HR: Vick: C.Vazquez (1); Lex: J.Turner (2) Lexington leads 3-1 |      | 
         
        
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Almost | 6 | 9 | 0 | Box  |  | Cache River | 5 | 4 | 2 |  WP - Alm BP (1-1)  LP - R.Porcello (0-1) HR: Alm: P.Alonso (1), H.Dozier (1); CR: A.Judge (2), C.Kelly (1) Almost leads 3-2 |      | 
          
          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Vicksburg | 6 | 10 | 0 | Box  |  | Lexington | 3 | 5 | 0 |  WP - Vick BP (1-2)  LP - V.Velasquez (0-1) HR: Vick: M.Canha 2 (3) Lexington leads 3-2 |      | 
         
        
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Cache River | 2 | 3 | 0 | Box  |  | Almost | 5 | 10 | 2 |  WP - Z.Davies (2-0)  LP - CR BP (1-1) HR: Alm: C.Blackmon (1), E.Rosario 2 (2), M.Sano (1), O.Narvaez (2) Almost wins series 4-2 |      | 
          
          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Lexington | 5 | 7 | 2 | Box  |  | Vicksburg | 10 | 12 | 0 |  WP - C.Morton (1-0)  LP - Lex BP (0-1) HR: Lex: K.Schwarber (1); Vick: T.Edman (1), M.Chapman (1), M.Canha (4), C.Vazquez 2 (3) Series tied 3-3 |      | 
         
        
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          | Extra Innings | R | H | E |   |  | Lexington | 3 | 6 | 0 | Box  |  | Vicksburg | 4 | 10 | 0 |  WP - Vick BP (2-2)  LP - Lex BP (0-2) HR: Vick: D.Murphy (1), J.Pederson 2 (3) Vicksburg wins series 4-3 |      | 
         
        
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