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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): 
          
            - Duck (83-67)
 
            - Yorktown (73-77)
 
            - Phenway (72-78)
 
            - Cincinnati (71-79)
 
           
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           Semifinals - Cincinnati vs. Duck; Phenway vs. Yorktown 
            
		  Duck won 4 games to 1
		   Phenway won 4 games to 3
             
          Finals - Phenway vs. Duck 
		  Season series: Duck won 4-2 
          2022 Gore Cup Winner - Duck won 4 games to 0 
            
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                    Finals
                    
                      
      
        
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Phenway | 5 | 8 | 3 | Box  |  | Duck | 7 | 11 | 0 |  WP - Duck BP (1-0)  LP - Phen BP (0-1) HR: Duck: C.Correa (1), E.Jimenez (1), J.Cronenworth (1) Duck leads 1-0 |   
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Phenway | 3 | 8 | 3 | Box  |  | Duck | 5 | 10 | 1 |  WP - J.Luzardo (1-0)  LP - K.Wright (0-1) HR: Phen: A.Diaz (1), A.Hicks (1); Duck: J.Realmuto (1) Duck leads 2-0 |   
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Duck | 4 | 7 | 1 | Box  |  | Phenway | 3 | 5 | 4 |  WP - J.deGrom (1-0)  LP - F.Valdez (0-1) HR: Duck: C.Correa (2); Phen: R.Hoskins (1) Duck leads 3-0 |   
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Duck | 7 | 12 | 1 | Box  |  | Phenway | 3 | 2 | 5 |  WP - Duck BP (2-0)  LP - C.Bassitt (0-1) HR: Duck: J.Cronenworth (2) Duck wins series 4-0 |   
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                    Semifinals
                    
                      
      
        
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          Semifinal One | 
          Semifinal Two | 
         
        
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Cincinnati | 4 | 4 | 0 | Box  |  | Duck | 5 | 7 | 0 |  WP - R.Ray (1-0)  LP - J.Cueto (0-1) HR: Cin: S.Brown (1), R.McMahon (1) Duck leads 1-0 |      | 
          
          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Phenway | 3 | 6 | 2 | Box  |  | Yorktown | 6 | 13 | 0 |  WP - J.Verlander (1-0)  LP - Phen BP (0-1) HR: Phen: N.Arenado (1); York: J.Martinez (1), S.Steer (1), B.Drury (1) Yorktown leads 1-0 |      | 
         
        
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Cincinnati | 3 | 6 | 0 | Box  |  | Duck | 4 | 2 | 2 |  WP - J.Luzardo (1-0)  LP - C.Morton (0-1) HR: Cin: A.Garcia (1); Duck: M.Melendez (1) Duck leads 2-0 |      | 
          
          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Phenway | 5 | 7 | 2 | Box  |  | Yorktown | 3 | 5 | 0 |  WP - K.Wright (1-0)  LP - S.McClanahan (0-1) HR: Phen: R.Acuna 2 (2) Series tied 1-1 |      | 
         
        
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Duck | 3 | 8 | 1 | Box  |  | Cincinnati | 12 | 16 | 0 |  WP - S.Gray (1-0)  LP - Duck BP (0-1) HR: Duck: B.Witt Jr. (1), N.Hoerner (1); Cin: L.Nootbaar (1), A.Garcia (2), M.Chapman (1), S.Brown (2) Duck leads 2-1 |      | 
          
          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Yorktown | 4 | 9 | 4 | Box  |  | Phenway | 3 | 5 | 1 |  WP - L.Lynn (1-0)  LP - F.Valdez (0-1) HR: York: Y.Alvarez (1); Phen: L.Voit (1), C.Kelly (1) Yorktown leads 2-1 |      | 
         
        
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Duck | 5 | 8 | 0 | Box  |  | Cincinnati | 3 | 7 | 0 |  WP - T.Gonsolin (1-0)  LP - A.Civale (0-1) HR: Duck: N.Hoerner (2); Cin: L.Nootbaar (2), T.O'Neill (1) Duck leads 3-1 |      | 
          
          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Yorktown | 6 | 8 | 0 | Box  |  | Phenway | 4 | 8 | 4 |  WP - York BP (1-0)  LP - C.Bassitt (0-1) HR: York: J.Martinez (2), T.d'Arnaud (1) Yorktown leads 3-1 |      | 
         
        
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Duck | 6 | 6 | 1 | Box  |  | Cincinnati | 4 | 3 | 0 |  WP - Duck BP (1-1)  LP - J.Gray (0-1) HR: Duck: E.Jimenez (1), J.Realmuto (1) Duck wins series 4-1 |      | 
          
          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Yorktown | 5 | 10 | 1 | Box  |  | Phenway | 6 | 10 | 0 |  WP - J.Suarez (1-0)  LP - N.Cortes (0-1) HR: York: Y.Alvarez (2), A.Riley (1), B.Drury (2); Phen: N.Arenado (2), A.Diaz 2 (2) Yorktown leads 3-2 |      | 
         
        
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Phenway | 3 | 4 | 2 | Box  |  | Yorktown | 2 | 8 | 0 |  WP - B.Woodruff (1-0)  LP - York BP (1-1) HR: Phen: N.Arenado (3), C.Kelly (2), L.Voit (2) Series tied 3-3 |      | 
         
        
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Phenway | 4 | 6 | 2 | Box  |  | Yorktown | 3 | 8 | 4 |  WP - K.Wright (2-0)  LP - York BP (1-2) HR: Phen: N.Arenado (4), R.Hoskins (1) Phenway wins series 4-3 |      | 
         
        
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