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    			| The Best of the WorstThe Bottom Feeder Open - playing for pride and a few bucks.   A small taste of post season baseball as the third and fourth place 
          teams get a chance to play a few more games.  Teams are ranked 
          1-8, based on season record and play a 3-game quarterfinal series.  
          Winners are re-seeded and play a 3-game semifinal.   The two remaining teams square off in a best-of-five finals. | 
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    			| The winner receives a bonus of 500,000 Benchwarmer Bucks.  
          The runner-up gets 250,000.   2014 Finals: Oakland Athletic vs. Cincinnati Season series: Oakland Athletic 5-1   2014 Winner - Cincinnati won 3 games to 1   Playoffs main page |  
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          | Game | Oakland Athletic vs. Cincinnati |  
          | 1 | |  | R | H | E |  |  | Oakland Athletic | 7 | 12 | 0 | Box |  | Cincinnati | 5 | 12 | 1 |  | WP - OA BP (1-0)  LP - Cin BP (0-1) HR: OA: P.Goldschmidt (1), A.LaRoche (1), Y.Gomes (1), C.Johnson (1); Cin: T.Frazier (1)
 Oakland Athletic leads 1-0
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          | 2 | |  | R | H | E |  |  | Oakland Athletic | 1 | 7 | 0 | Box |  | Cincinnati | 2 | 6 | 2 |  | WP - Y.Gallardo (1-0)  LP - OA BP (1-1) HR: OA: J.Werth (1)
 Series tied 1-1
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          | 3 | | Extra Innings | R | H | E |  |  | Cincinnati | 4 | 8 | 0 | Box |  | Oakland Athletic | 3 | 12 | 0 |  | WP - C.Hamels (1-0)  LP - D.Fister (0-1) HR: Cin: T.Frazier (2); OA: Y.Gomes (2)
 Cincinnati leads 2-1
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          | 4 | |  | R | H | E |  |  | Cincinnati | 4 | 9 | 0 | Box |  | Oakland Athletic | 3 | 10 | 2 |  | WP - J.Lackey (1-0)  LP - OA BP (1-2) HR: Cin: T.Frazier (3); OA: C.Johnson (2)
 Cincinnati wins series 3-1
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          | Game | Semifinal One | Semifinal Two |  
          | 1 | |  | R | H | E |  |  | New Fairfield | 4 | 9 | 0 | Box |  | Cincinnati | 5 | 7 | 0 |  | WP - Cin BP (1-0)  LP - T.Wood (0-1) HR: NF: R.Cano (1), J.Hardy (1); Cin: M.Carpenter (1)
 Cincinnati leads 1-0
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 | |  | R | H | E |  |  | Oakland Athletic | 3 | 4 | 2 | Box |  | Detroit | 2 | 8 | 0 |  | WP - T.Hudson (1-0)  LP - Det BP (0-1) HR: none
 Oakland Athletic leads 1-0
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          | 2 | | Extra Innings | R | H | E |  |  | Cincinnati | 5 | 10 | 0 | Box |  | New Fairfield | 4 | 9 | 0 |  | WP - Cin BP (2-0)  LP - S.Gray (0-1) HR: Cin: R.Howard (1)
 Cincinnati wins series 2-0
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 | | Extra Innings | R | H | E |  |  | Detroit | 3 | 9 | 0 | Box |  | Oakland Athletic | 2 | 3 | 0 |  | WP - Det BP (1-1)  LP - J.Cosart (0-1) HR: none
 Series tied 1-1
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          | 3 |  | |  | R | H | E |  |  | Oakland Athletic | 6 | 6 | 1 | Box |  | Detroit | 0 | 3 | 0 |  | WP - A.Wainwright (1-0)  LP - D.Price (0-1) HR: none
 Oakland Athletic wins series 2-1
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          | Game | Quarterfinal One | Quarterfinal Two |  
          | 1 | |  | R | H | E |  |  | Springfield | 4 | 9 | 2 | Box |  | Cincinnati | 5 | 6 | 3 |  | WP - K.Lohse (1-0)  LP - J.Samardzija (0-1) HR: Spr: J.Upton (1); Cin: R.Howard (1)
 Cincinnati leads 1-0
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 | | Extra Innings | R | H | E |  |  | California | 3 | 6 | 1 | Box |  | Oakland Athletic | 4 | 9 | 1 |  | WP - A.Wainwright (1-0)  LP - Cal BP (0-1) HR: Cal: A.Gordon (1); OA: A.LaRoche (1), C.Beltran (1)
 Oakland Athletic leads 1-0
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          | 2 | |  | R | H | E |  |  | Cincinnati | 2 | 6 | 0 | Box |  | Springfield | 6 | 9 | 0 |  | WP - Spr BP (1-0)  LP - Y.Gallardo (0-1) HR: Spr: E.Encarnacion (1), S.Choo (1)
 Series tied 1-1
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 | |  | R | H | E |  |  | Oakland Athletic | 3 | 8 | 3 | Box |  | California | 4 | 9 | 1 |  | WP - Cal BP (1-1)  LP - M.Bumgarner (0-1) HR: none
 Series tied 1-1
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          | 3 | |  | R | H | E |  |  | Springfield | 2 | 3 | 2 | Box |  | Cincinnati | 7 | 8 | 1 |  | WP - C.Hamels (1-0)  LP - M.Minor (0-1) HR: Cin: T.Frazier (1)
 Cincinnati wins series 2-1
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 | |  | R | H | E |  |  | California | 4 | 6 | 0 | Box |  | Oakland Athletic | 6 | 13 | 0 |  | WP - D.Fister (1-0)  LP - C.McHugh (0-1) HR: OA: A.LaRoche (2), M.Trumbo 2 (2)
 Oakland Athletic wins series 2-1
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          | Game | Quarterfinal Three | Quarterfinal Four |  
          | 1 | |  | R | H | E |  |  | Copenhagen | 2 | 9 | 0 | Box |  | Detroit | 3 | 9 | 0 |  | WP - Det BP (1-0)  LP - Cop BP (0-1) HR: none
 Detroit leads 1-0
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 | | Extra Innings | R | H | E |  |  | Alcatraz | 5 | 7 | 0 | Box |  | New Fairfield | 6 | 10 | 2 |  | WP - NF BP (1-0)  LP - J.Verlander (0-1) HR: NF: J.Hardy 2 (2)
 New Fairfield leads 1-0
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          | 2 | |  | R | H | E |  |  | Detroit | 6 | 10 | 0 | Box |  | Copenhagen | 2 | 8 | 4 |  | WP - J.Hammel (1-0)  LP - A.Cobb (0-1) HR: Det: A.Pujols (1)
 Detroit wins series 2-0
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 | |  | R | H | E |  |  | New Fairfield | 4 | 9 | 0 | Box |  | Alcatraz | 7 | 9 | 1 |  | WP - T.House (1-0)  LP - J.Masterson (0-1) HR: Alc: J.Peralta (1), D.Freese (1), J.Willingham (1)
 Series tied 1-1
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          | 3 |  | |  | R | H | E |  |  | Alcatraz | 2 | 1 | 9 | Box |  | New Fairfield | 6 | 8 | 2 |  | WP - H.Kuroda (1-0)  LP - B.McCarthy (0-1) HR: none
 New Fairfield wins series 2-1
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