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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 2017 Entrants (in order of seeding): 
          
            - Erebor (89-61)
 
            - Newport News (82-68)
 
            - Blair (72-78)
 
            - Harwell's (72-78)
 
           
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           Semifinals - Harwell's vs. Erebor; Blair vs. Newport News 
            
		  Erebor won 4 games to 2
		   Newport News won 4 games to 1
             
          Finals - Newport News vs. Erebor 
		  Season series: Erebor won 4-2 
          2017 Gore Cup Winner - Erebor won 4 games to 0 
            
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                    Finals
                    
                      
      
        
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Newport News | 4 | 5 | 3 | Box  |  | Erebor | 5 | 4 | 0 |  WP - Ere BP (1-0)  LP - P.Bridwell (0-1) HR: NN: C.Taylor (1), M.Haniger (1); Ere: K.Schwarber (1) Erebor leads 1-0 |   
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Newport News | 3 | 8 | 0 | Box  |  | Erebor | 6 | 9 | 1 |  WP - S.Gray (1-0)  LP - NN BP (0-1) HR: NN: J.Realmuto (1); Ere: C.Blackmon (1), F.Freeman (1), A.Duvall (1) Erebor leads 2-0 |   
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Erebor | 7 | 14 | 0 | Box  |  | Newport News | 3 | 10 | 0 |  WP - E.Rodriguez (1-0)  LP - C.Stratton (0-1) HR: Ere: C.Blackmon (2), W.Castillo 2 (2), Y.Gurriel (1); NN: M.Haniger (2) Erebor leads 3-0 |   
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Erebor | 5 | 14 | 0 | Box  |  | Newport News | 2 | 4 | 1 |  WP - Ere BP (2-0)  LP - A.Wood (0-1) HR: Ere: W.Castillo (3), K.Schwarber (2) Erebor wins series 4-0 |   
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          Semifinal One | 
          Semifinal Two | 
         
        
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Harwell's | 1 | 10 | 2 | Box  |  | Erebor | 3 | 10 | 0 |  WP - C.Sale (1-0)  LP - Har BP (0-1) HR: Har: K.Bryant (1); Ere: C.Blackmon (1), C.Seager (1) Erebor leads 1-0 |      | 
          
          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Blair | 2 | 11 | 1 | Box  |  | Newport News | 1 | 4 | 0 |  WP - M.Scherzer (1-0)  LP - NN BP (0-1) HR: Bla: N.Castellanos (1); NN: K.Davis (1) Blair leads 1-0 |      | 
         
        
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Harwell's | 2 | 5 | 0 | Box  |  | Erebor | 4 | 8 | 0 |  WP - S.Gray (1-0)  LP - Y.Darvish (0-1) HR: Ere: A.Duvall (1) Erebor leads 2-0 |      | 
          
          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Blair | 2 | 7 | 2 | Box  |  | Newport News | 5 | 6 | 0 |  WP - C.Kluber (1-0)  LP - Bla BP (0-1) HR: none Series tied 1-1 |      | 
         
        
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Erebor | 4 | 8 | 0 | Box  |  | Harwell's | 2 | 4 | 1 |  WP - D.Duffy (1-0)  LP - Har BP (0-2) HR: Ere: F.Freeman (1); Har: S.Choo (1) Erebor leads 3-0 |      | 
          
          | Extra Innings | R | H | E |   |  | Newport News | 4 | 8 | 0 | Box  |  | Blair | 3 | 7 | 2 |  WP - C.Stratton (1-0)  LP - Bla BP (0-2) HR: NN: C.Taylor (1), K.Calhoun (1) Newport News leads 2-1 |      | 
         
        
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Erebor | 5 | 9 | 0 | Box  |  | Harwell's | 7 | 11 | 1 |  WP - Har BP (1-2)  LP - Ere BP (0-1) HR: Ere: P.Goldschmidt (1), D.Peralta (1); Har: Z.Cozart (1), J.Votto (1), A.Jones (1) Erebor leads 3-1 |      | 
          
          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Newport News | 7 | 8 | 2 | Box  |  | Blair | 6 | 11 | 4 |  WP - A.Wood (1-0)  LP - C.Morton (0-1) HR: NN: E.Encarnacion (1); Bla: M.Moustakas 2 (2), J.Bautista (1), S.Rodriguez (1) Newport News leads 3-1 |      | 
         
        
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Erebor | 3 | 5 | 0 | Box  |  | Harwell's | 10 | 14 | 1 |  WP - Har BP (2-2)  LP - C.Archer (0-1) HR: Har: R.Odor (1), K.Bryant 2 (3), J.Votto (2), M.Gonzalez (1) Erebor leads 3-2 |      | 
          
          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Newport News | 5 | 6 | 1 | Box  |  | Blair | 3 | 8 | 0 |  WP - C.Carrasco (1-0)  LP - M.Fulmer (0-1) HR: NN: K.Davis (2), J.Gyorko (1) Newport News wins series 4-1 |      | 
         
        
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Harwell's | 0 | 7 | 0 | Box  |  | Erebor | 2 | 8 | 0 |  WP - C.Sale (2-0)  LP - J.Quintana (0-1) HR: Har: S.Choo (2); Ere: D.Peralta (2), Y.Gurriel (1) Erebor wins series 4-2 |      | 
          
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