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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 2022 Entrants (in order of seeding): 
          
            - X (86-64)
 
            - Big Mountain (80-70)
 
            - Axe (75-75)
 
            - Fearful (73-77)
 
           
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           Semifinals - Fearful vs. X; Axe vs. Big Mountain 
            
		  X won 4 games to 0
		   Big Mountain won 4 games to 1
             
          Finals - Big Mountain vs. X 
		  Season series: Big Mountain won 4-2 
          2022 Gore Cup Winner - Big Mountain won 4 games to 2 
            
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                    Finals
                    
                      
      
        
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Big Mountain | 4 | 13 | 2 | Box  |  | X | 5 | 12 | 0 |  WP - M.Fried (1-0)  LP - S.Alcantara (0-1) HR: BM: B.Bichette (1), A.Rutschman (1); X: K.Farmer (1) X leads 1-0 |   
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          | Extra Innings | R | H | E |   |  | Big Mountain | 4 | 12 | 0 | Box  |  | X | 5 | 5 | 0 |  WP - Y.Darvish (1-0)  LP - J.Musgrove (0-1) HR: BM: B.Bichette (2) X leads 2-0 |   
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | X | 1 | 8 | 2 | Box  |  | Big Mountain | 3 | 14 | 0 |  WP - Z.Gallen (1-0)  LP - X BP (0-1) HR: X: C.Mullins (1); BM: R.Devers (1), A.Rutschman (2), A.Gimenez (1) X leads 2-1 |   
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | X | 3 | 8 | 1 | Box  |  | Big Mountain | 4 | 10 | 0 |  WP - T.McKenzie (1-0)  LP - P.Sandoval (0-1) HR: X: K.Schwarber (1); BM: A.Vaughn (1) Series tied 2-2 |   
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          | Extra Innings | R | H | E |   |  | X | 4 | 10 | 0 | Box  |  | Big Mountain | 5 | 11 | 2 |  WP - L.Gilbert (1-0)  LP - M.Keller (0-1) HR: X: K.Schwarber 2 (3), C.Mullins (2); BM: F.Reyes (1) Big Mountain leads 3-2 |   
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Big Mountain | 9 | 17 | 0 | Box  |  | X | 4 | 5 | 0 |  WP - S.Alcantara (1-1)  LP - M.Fried (1-1) HR: BM: R.Devers (2), T.Mancini (1), B.Bichette (3); X: W.Flores (1), B.Donovan (1) Big Mountain wins series 4-2 |   
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                    Semifinals
                    
                      
      
        
          | Game | 
          Semifinal One | 
          Semifinal Two | 
         
        
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Fearful | 3 | 9 | 0 | Box  |  | X | 4 | 9 | 2 |  WP - M.Fried (1-0)  LP - B.Woodruff (0-1) HR: Fear: V.Grissom (1); X: C.Mullins (1) X leads 1-0 |      | 
          
          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Axe | 4 | 9 | 2 | Box  |  | Big Mountain | 6 | 10 | 1 |  WP - BM BP (1-0)  LP - J.Verlander (0-1) HR: Axe: L.Rengifo (1), Y.Alvarez (1), M.Yastrzemski (1); BM: A.Vaughn (1), A.Rutschman (1) Big Mountain leads 1-0 |      | 
         
        
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Fearful | 3 | 9 | 2 | Box  |  | X | 7 | 12 | 0 |  WP - Y.Darvish (1-0)  LP - K.Gausman (0-1) HR: Fear: V.Grissom (2); X: A.Garcia (1) X leads 2-0 |      | 
          
          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Axe | 4 | 8 | 1 | Box  |  | Big Mountain | 3 | 7 | 0 |  WP - J.Sears (1-0)  LP - BM BP (1-1) HR: Axe: L.Thomas (1) Series tied 1-1 |      | 
         
        
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          | Extra Innings | R | H | E |   |  | X | 3 | 10 | 0 | Box  |  | Fearful | 2 | 11 | 3 |  WP - C.Morton (1-0)  LP - Fear BP (0-1) HR: X: K.Schwarber (1) X leads 3-0 |      | 
          
          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Big Mountain | 4 | 9 | 1 | Box  |  | Axe | 3 | 3 | 2 |  WP - Z.Gallen (1-0)  LP - Axe BP (0-1) HR: BM: T.Mancini (1), A.Vaughn (2) Big Mountain leads 2-1 |      | 
         
        
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | X | 10 | 16 | 0 | Box  |  | Fearful | 4 | 11 | 0 |  WP - P.Sandoval (1-0)  LP - Fear BP (0-2) HR: X: F.Freeman (1), A.Garcia (2); Fear: D.Jansen (1) X wins series 4-0 |      | 
          
          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Big Mountain | 7 | 12 | 2 | Box  |  | Axe | 1 | 5 | 2 |  WP - T.McKenzie (1-0)  LP - D.Kremer (0-1) HR: BM: A.Gimenez (1) Big Mountain leads 3-1 |      | 
         
        
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Big Mountain | 3 | 4 | 2 | Box  |  | Axe | 2 | 7 | 0 |  WP - L.Gilbert (1-0)  LP - T.Gonsolin (0-1) HR: none Big Mountain wins series 4-1 |      | 
         
        
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