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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: Kansas City vs. Backyard Season series: Kansas City 5-1   2014 Winner - Backyard won 3 games to 2   Playoffs main page |  
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          | Game | Kansas City vs. Backyard |  
          | 1 | | Extra Innings | R | H | E |  |  | Kansas City | 4 | 12 | 1 | Box |  | Backyard | 5 | 9 | 1 |  | WP - S.Gray (1-0)  LP - A.Sanchez (0-1) HR: KC: J.Altuve (1)
 Backyard leads 1-0
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          | 2 | |  | R | H | E |  |  | Kansas City | 4 | 10 | 1 | Box |  | Backyard | 3 | 9 | 0 |  | WP - J.Zimmermann (1-0)  LP - M.Shoemaker (0-1) HR: Back: J.Reddick (1)
 Series tied 1-1
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          | 3 | |  | R | H | E |  |  | Backyard | 3 | 5 | 0 | Box |  | Kansas City | 2 | 7 | 0 |  | WP - C.Morton (1-0)  LP - KC BP (0-1) HR: Back: M.Holliday (1)
 Backyard leads 2-1
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          | 4 | |  | R | H | E |  |  | Backyard | 6 | 8 | 0 | Box |  | Kansas City | 7 | 15 | 0 |  | WP - KC BP (1-1)  LP - J.Collmenter (0-1) HR: Back: M.Holliday (2); KC: A.Gonzalez (1)
 Series tied 2-2
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          | 5 | |  | R | H | E |  |  | Kansas City | 3 | 7 | 0 | Box |  | Backyard | 7 | 8 | 1 |  | WP - J.Happ (1-0)  LP - KC BP (1-2) HR: Back: D.Santana (1), C.Utley (1), V.Martinez (1)
 Backyard wins series 3-2
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          | Game | Semifinal One | Semifinal Two |  
          | 1 | |  | R | H | E |  |  | Kansas City | 4 | 9 | 0 | Box |  | Oklahoma | 1 | 5 | 3 |  | WP - M.Minor (1-0)  LP - OK BP (0-1) HR: KC: A.Gonzalez (1), M.Betts (1)
 Kansas City leads 1-0
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 | |  | R | H | E |  |  | Backyard | 5 | 4 | 1 | Box |  | Death Valley | 2 | 11 | 0 |  | WP - J.Collmenter (1-0)  LP - J.Quintana (0-1) HR: Back: V.Martinez (1), C.Asche (1); DV: C.Ruiz (1)
 Backyard leads 1-0
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          | 2 | |  | R | H | E |  |  | Oklahoma | 3 | 6 | 2 | Box |  | Kansas City | 4 | 8 | 1 |  | WP - KC BP (1-0)  LP - OK BP (0-2) HR: KC: J.Upton (1)
 Kansas City wins series 2-0
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 | | Extra Innings | R | H | E |  |  | Death Valley | 6 | 10 | 2 | Box |  | Backyard | 5 | 12 | 0 |  | WP - H.Santiago (1-0)  LP - J.Happ (0-1) HR: DV: M.Ozuna (1)
 Series tied 1-1
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          | 3 |  | | Extra Innings | R | H | E |  |  | Backyard | 5 | 13 | 2 | Box |  | Death Valley | 4 | 11 | 0 |  | WP - S.Gray (1-0)  LP - Z.Greinke (0-1) HR: Back: V.Martinez (2); DV: J.Ellsbury (1)
 Backyard wins series 2-1
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          | Game | Quarterfinal One | Quarterfinal Two |  
          | 1 | |  | R | H | E |  |  | Chicago | 1 | 4 | 2 | Box |  | Oklahoma | 8 | 11 | 1 |  | WP - M.Scherzer (1-0)  LP - J.Verlander (0-1) HR: OK: M.Teixeira 2 (2)
 Oklahoma leads 1-0
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 | |  | R | H | E |  |  | Kansas City | 3 | 8 | 1 | Box |  | Lake Tahoe | 2 | 5 | 0 |  | WP - A.Sanchez (1-0)  LP - E.Santana (0-1) HR: KC: P.Goldschmidt (1)
 Kansas City leads 1-0
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          | 2 | |  | R | H | E |  |  | Oklahoma | 0 | 6 | 2 | Box |  | Chicago | 6 | 11 | 0 |  | WP - O.Despaigne (1-0)  LP - J.Shields (0-1) HR: none
 Series tied 1-1
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 | |  | R | H | E |  |  | Lake Tahoe | 2 | 7 | 0 | Box |  | Kansas City | 7 | 7 | 3 |  | WP - J.Zimmermann (1-0)  LP - J.Vargas (0-1) HR: none
 Kansas City wins series 2-0
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          | 3 | |  | R | H | E |  |  | Chicago | 0 | 8 | 2 | Box |  | Oklahoma | 2 | 10 | 2 |  | WP - J.Samardzija (1-0)  LP - Chi BP (0-1) HR: none
 Oklahoma wins series 2-1
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          | Game | Quarterfinal Three | Quarterfinal Four |  
          | 1 | |  | R | H | E |  |  | Backyard | 3 | 7 | 2 | Box |  | Cincinnati | 2 | 11 | 0 |  | WP - S.Gray (1-0)  LP - K.Lohse (0-1) HR: none
 Backyard leads 1-0
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 | |  | R | H | E |  |  | Death Valley | 5 | 15 | 2 | Box |  | SoCal Report | 2 | 6 | 1 |  | WP - Z.Greinke (1-0)  LP - SC BP (0-1) HR: DV: J.Ellsbury (1), M.Ozuna (1)
 Death Valley leads 1-0
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          | 2 | |  | R | H | E |  |  | Cincinnati | 2 | 8 | 1 | Box |  | Backyard | 3 | 9 | 0 |  | WP - M.Shoemaker (1-0)  LP - J.Weaver (0-1) HR: Cin: T.Frazier (1)
 Backyard wins series 2-0
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 | | Extra Innings | R | H | E |  |  | SoCal Report | 3 | 8 | 1 | Box |  | Death Valley | 2 | 4 | 0 |  | WP - J.Peavy (1-0)  LP - DV BP (0-1) HR: SC: B.McCann (1)
 Series tied 1-1
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          | 3 |  | |  | R | H | E |  |  | Death Valley | 6 | 11 | 3 | Box |  | SoCal Report | 5 | 12 | 1 |  | WP - D.Fister (1-0)  LP - SC BP (0-2) HR: DV: J.Ellsbury (2), D.Ackley 2 (2), M.Cuddyer (1); SC: E.Longoria (1)
 Death Valley wins series 2-1
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