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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 2016 Entrants (in order of seeding): 
          
            - Wayne (89-61)
 
            - Dawns (81-69)
 
            - D.C. (79-71)
 
            - Italian (77-73)
 
           
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           Semifinals - Italian vs. Wayne; D.C. vs. Dawns 
            
		  Wayne won 4 games to 1
		   D.C. won 4 games to 2
             
          Finals - D.C. vs. Wayne 
		  Season series: Tied 3-3 
          2016 Gore Cup Winner - Wayne won 4 games to 0 
            
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                    Finals
                    
                      
      
        
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | D.C. | 2 | 9 | 0 | Box  |  | Wayne | 6 | 11 | 0 |  WP - J.Quintana (1-0)  LP - C.Archer (0-1) HR: DC: Y.Cespedes (1), B.Miller (1); Way: D.Ortiz (1) Wayne leads 1-0 |   
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | D.C. | 3 | 6 | 5 | Box  |  | Wayne | 9 | 9 | 0 |  WP - Way BP (1-0)  LP - J.Teheran (0-1) HR: Way: D.Pedroia (1), M.Trumbo (1) Wayne leads 2-0 |   
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Wayne | 6 | 8 | 0 | Box  |  | D.C. | 1 | 7 | 3 |  WP - M.Bumgarner (1-0)  LP - E.Santana (0-1) HR: Way: W.Myers (1), S.Perez (1); DC: P.Goldschmidt 2 (2) Wayne leads 3-0 |   
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Wayne | 5 | 11 | 1 | Box  |  | D.C. | 4 | 6 | 2 |  WP - Way BP (2-0)  LP - DC BP (0-1) HR: Way: D.Ortiz (2), M.Trumbo 2 (3); DC: P.Goldschmidt (3) Wayne wins series 4-0 |   
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                    Semifinals
                    
                      
      
        
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          Semifinal One | 
          Semifinal Two | 
         
        
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Italian | 1 | 7 | 0 | Box  |  | Wayne | 3 | 8 | 0 |  WP - J.Quintana (1-0)  LP - Ital BP (0-1) HR: Ital: A.Duvall (1) Wayne leads 1-0 |      | 
          
          |   | R | H | E |   |  | D.C. | 4 | 8 | 0 | Box  |  | Dawns | 3 | 9 | 0 |  WP - C.Archer (1-0)  LP - J.Verlander (0-1) HR: DC: J.Altuve (1), T.Naquin (1), R.Braun (1); Daw: A.Jones (1) D.C. leads 1-0 |      | 
         
        
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Italian | 1 | 6 | 1 | Box  |  | Wayne | 5 | 8 | 0 |  WP - C.Kluber (1-0)  LP - M.Tanaka (0-1) HR: Way: D.Dahl (1) Wayne leads 2-0 |      | 
          
          |   | R | H | E |   |  | D.C. | 0 | 10 | 1 | Box  |  | Dawns | 7 | 7 | 0 |  WP - D.Price (1-0)  LP - J.Teheran (0-1) HR: DC: D.Murphy (1); Daw: A.Jones (2), J.Bruce (1), M.Semien (1) Series tied 1-1 |      | 
         
        
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Wayne | 4 | 5 | 1 | Box  |  | Italian | 5 | 10 | 2 |  WP - M.Moore (1-0)  LP - Way BP (0-1) HR: Way: A.Rizzo 2 (2); Ital: J.Gyorko 2 (2) Wayne leads 2-1 |      | 
          
          | Extra Innings | R | H | E |   |  | Dawns | 5 | 9 | 3 | Box  |  | D.C. | 6 | 14 | 3 |  WP - E.Santana (1-0)  LP - Daw BP (0-1) HR: Daw: J.Bruce (2), J.Lobaton (1), R.Odor (1); DC: T.Naquin 2 (3), R.Braun (2) D.C. leads 2-1 |      | 
         
        
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Wayne | 6 | 11 | 1 | Box  |  | Italian | 3 | 11 | 0 |  WP - Way BP (1-1)  LP - G.Gonzalez (0-1) HR: Way: D.Ortiz (1), S.Perez (1) Wayne leads 3-1 |      | 
          
          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Dawns | 3 | 10 | 0 | Box  |  | D.C. | 6 | 10 | 0 |  WP - M.Stroman (1-0)  LP - Daw BP (0-2) HR: Daw: M.Semien (2); DC: B.Miller (1), D.Murphy (2), J.Peralta (1) D.C. leads 3-1 |      | 
         
        
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Wayne | 6 | 11 | 1 | Box  |  | Italian | 3 | 4 | 2 |  WP - C.Rodon (1-0)  LP - M.Leake (0-1) HR: Way: W.Myers (1); Ital: J.Abreu (1) Wayne wins series 4-1 |      | 
          
          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Dawns | 4 | 9 | 0 | Box  |  | D.C. | 3 | 8 | 0 |  WP - K.Gausman (1-0)  LP - F.Liriano (0-1) HR: Daw: R.Odor (2); DC: S.Marte (1) D.C. leads 3-2 |      | 
         
        
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          | Extra Innings | R | H | E |   |  | D.C. | 3 | 8 | 0 | Box  |  | Dawns | 2 | 10 | 0 |  WP - C.Archer (2-0)  LP - Daw BP (0-3) HR: DC: P.Goldschmidt (1) D.C. wins series 4-2 |      | 
         
        
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