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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 2012 Entrants (in order of seeding): 
          
            - Iowa (82-68)
 
            - Kitty Hawk (81-69)
 
            - Zephyr Cove (74-76)
 
            - Santa Cruz (70-80)
 
           
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           Semifinals - Santa Cruz vs Iowa; Zephyr Cove vs Kitty Hawk 
            
          Finals - Santa Cruz vs Zephyr Cove - Zephyr Cove won the season 
		  series 4-2 
            
          2012 Gore Cup Winner - Zephyr Cove in 4 Games 
          	    
          Playoffs main page 
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                    Finals
                    
                      
      
        
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          Santa Cruz vs. Zephyr Cove | 
         
        
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Santa Cruz | 3 | 6 | 0 | Box  |  | Zephyr Cove | 4 | 11 | 0 |  WP - ZC BP (1-0)  LP - SC BP (0-1) HR: SC: B.Posey (1), A.Soriano (1), B.Moss (1); ZC: J.Kubel 2 (2), J.Bruce (1) Zephyr Cove leads 1-0 |   
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Santa Cruz | 2 | 9 | 0 | Box  |  | Zephyr Cove | 7 | 13 | 1 |  WP - R.Dickey (1-0)  LP - K.Medlen (0-1) HR: ZC: M.Morse (1), M.Young (1), J.Bruce (2), Y.Molina (1) Zephyr Cove leads 2-0 |   
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          | Extra Innings | R | H | E |   |  | Zephyr Cove | 4 | 12 | 1 | Box  |  | Santa Cruz | 3 | 7 | 3 |  WP - T.Milone (1-0)  LP - SC BP (0-2) HR: ZC: M.Trumbo (1); SC: A.Soriano 2 (3) Zephyr Cove leads 3-0 |   
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          | Extra Innings | R | H | E |   |  | Zephyr Cove | 3 | 5 | 0 | Box  |  | Santa Cruz | 2 | 6 | 0 |  WP - M.Harvey (1-0)  LP - J.Vargas (0-1) HR: SC: B.Posey (2), B.Moss (2) Zephyr Cove wins series 4-0 |   
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                    Semifinals
                    
                      
      
        
          | Game | 
          Semifinal One | 
          Semifinal Two | 
         
        
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Santa Cruz | 1 | 9 | 0 | Box  |  | Iowa | 5 | 10 | 0 |  WP - K.Lohse (1-0)  LP - A.Griffin (0-1) HR: none Iowa leads 1-0 |      | 
          
          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Zephyr Cove | 4 | 7 | 0 | Box  |  | Kitty Hawk | 3 | 9 | 0 |  WP - J.Peavy (1-0)  LP - T.Hanson (0-1) HR: ZC: M.Trumbo (1); KH: C.Headley (1) Zephyr Cove leads 1-0 |      | 
         
        
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Santa Cruz | 4 | 9 | 0 | Box  |  | Iowa | 3 | 9 | 1 |  WP - M.Harrison (1-0)  LP - IA BP (0-1) HR: SC: N.Markakis (1) Series tied 1-1 |      | 
          
          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Zephyr Cove | 5 | 9 | 0 | Box  |  | Kitty Hawk | 1 | 5 | 1 |  WP - B.Anderson (1-0)  LP - D.Holland (0-1) HR: ZC: J.Bruce (1); KH: C.Headley (2) Zephyr Cove leads 2-0 |      | 
         
        
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Iowa | 7 | 7 | 0 | Box  |  | Santa Cruz | 5 | 14 | 1 |  WP - Y.Darvish (1-0)  LP - SC BP (0-1) HR: IA: A.Jones (1), A.Pujols (1); SC: D.Wright (1), A.Soriano (1) Iowa leads 2-1 |      | 
          
          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Kitty Hawk | 1 | 9 | 0 | Box  |  | Zephyr Cove | 7 | 15 | 1 |  WP - M.Harvey (1-0)  LP - KH BP (0-1) HR: KH: M.Teixeira (1), D.Ross (1); ZC: M.Morse (1), M.Trumbo (2), J.Kubel 2 (2) Zephyr Cove leads 3-0 |      | 
         
        
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Iowa | 4 | 12 | 3 | Box  |  | Santa Cruz | 7 | 10 | 1 |  WP - M.Bumgarner (1-0)  LP - T.Wood (0-1) HR: IA: A.Pujols 2 (3) Series tied 2-2 |      | 
          
          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Kitty Hawk | 3 | 8 | 2 | Box  |  | Zephyr Cove | 5 | 10 | 0 |  WP - R.Dickey (1-0)  LP - W.Rodriguez (0-1) HR: KH: J.Hardy (1); ZC: J.Reddick (1) Zephyr Cove wins series 4-0 |      | 
         
        
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Iowa | 3 | 4 | 0 | Box  |  | Santa Cruz | 8 | 10 | 0 |  WP - J.Vargas (1-0)  LP - A.Cook (0-1) HR: SC: E.Hosmer (1), B.Posey (1), D.Pedroia (1), B.Moss (1) Santa Cruz leads 3-2 |      | 
          
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Santa Cruz | 2 | 6 | 0 | Box  |  | Iowa | 7 | 14 | 0 |  WP - K.Lohse (2-0)  LP - A.Griffin (0-2) HR: SC: S.Choo (1); IA: A.Pujols (4), C.Hart (1), P.Goldschmidt (1), M.Maldonado (1) Series tied 3-3 |      | 
          
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Santa Cruz | 6 | 9 | 0 | Box  |  | Iowa | 4 | 7 | 0 |  WP - SC BP (1-1)  LP - C.Sale (0-1) HR: SC: D.Wright (2), B.Moss (2) Santa Cruz wins series 4-3 |      | 
          
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