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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 2014 Entrants (in order of seeding):

Hornsby's (81-69)
Spaten (78-72)
Pittsburgh (77-73)
Cincinnati (67-83)

Semifinals - Cincinnati vs. Hornsby's; Pittsburgh vs. Spaten

Hornsby's won 4 games to 1

Spaten won 4 games to 3

Finals - Spaten vs. Hornsby's

Season series: Split 6-6

2014 Gore Cup Winner - Hornsby's won 4 games to 0

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Finals

Game

Spaten vs. Hornsby's

1

	R	H	E
Spaten	0	10	0	Box
Hornsby's	6	10	0	Box
WP - C.Kershaw (1-0) LP - Spa BP (0-1) HR: Spa: J.Abreu (1); Horn: B.Zobrist (1), R.Braun (1) Hornsby's leads 1-0

2

	R	H	E
Spaten	4	8	0	Box
Hornsby's	7	9	1	Box
WP - Horn BP (1-0) LP - H.Alvarez (0-1) HR: Spa: C.Ruiz (1); Horn: B.Posey 2 (2), R.Braun (2) Hornsby's leads 2-0

3

	R	H	E
Hornsby's	8	14	1	Box
Spaten	6	6	1	Box
WP - Horn BP (2-0) LP - M.Leake (0-1) HR: Horn: B.Posey (3); Spa: T.Hunter (1), J.Abreu (2) Hornsby's leads 3-0

4

	R	H	E
Hornsby's	5	9	0	Box
Spaten	2	12	0	Box
WP - J.Collmenter (1-0) LP - Spa BP (0-2) HR: Horn: A.Simmons (1), R.Braun (3); Spa: J.Abreu (3) Hornsby's wins series 4-0

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Semifinals

Game

Semifinal One

Semifinal Two

1

	R	H	E
Cincinnati	3	9	0	Box
Hornsby's	4	9	1	Box
WP - C.Kershaw (1-0) LP - J.Lester (0-1) HR: Cin: J.Schoop (1), J.Baez (1); Horn: O.Infante (1) Hornsby's leads 1-0

Extra Innings	R	H	E
Pittsburgh	1	10	0	Box
Spaten	2	4	1	Box
WP - S.Strasburg (1-0) LP - Pgh BP (0-1) HR: none Spaten leads 1-0

2

	R	H	E
Cincinnati	3	5	6	Box
Hornsby's	7	10	0	Box
WP - Horn BP (1-0) LP - C.Tillman (0-1) HR: Cin: D.Brown (1); Horn: R.Braun (1), D.Jennings (1) Hornsby's leads 2-0

	R	H	E
Pittsburgh	1	3	0	Box
Spaten	2	9	0	Box
WP - H.Alvarez (1-0) LP - Pgh BP (0-2) HR: Pgh: B.Butler (1); Spa: D.Stubbs (1) Spaten leads 2-0

3

	R	H	E
Hornsby's	3	9	1	Box
Cincinnati	8	15	0	Box
WP - D.Haren (1-0) LP - S.Miller (0-1) HR: Cin: J.Schoop (2), S.Marte (1), M.Dominguez (1) Hornsby's leads 2-1

	R	H	E
Spaten	3	5	2	Box
Pittsburgh	7	7	1	Box
WP - S.Greene (1-0) LP - M.Leake (0-1) HR: Pgh: M.Teixeira (1) Spaten leads 2-1

4

Extra Innings	R	H	E
Hornsby's	6	6	3	Box
Cincinnati	5	15	3	Box
WP - J.Collmenter (1-0) LP - D.Gee (0-1) HR: none Hornsby's leads 3-1

	R	H	E
Spaten	4	9	0	Box
Pittsburgh	6	9	6	Box
WP - Z.Greinke (1-0) LP - R.Porcello (0-1) HR: Pgh: D.Ackley (1), J.Morneau (1), B.Dozier (1) Series tied 2-2

5

	R	H	E
Hornsby's	6	15	1	Box
Cincinnati	2	5	4	Box
WP - D.Duffy (1-0) LP - C.Archer (0-1) HR: Horn: J.Bautista (1) Hornsby's wins series 4-1

	R	H	E
Spaten	7	12	0	Box
Pittsburgh	8	11	0	Box
WP - Pgh BP (1-2) LP - R.Dickey (0-1) HR: Pgh: B.Gardner (1), A.Ramirez (1) Pittsburgh leads 3-2

6

	R	H	E
Pittsburgh	3	4	1	Box
Spaten	4	7	2	Box
WP - S.Strasburg (2-0) LP - Pgh BP (1-3) HR: Spa: D.Stubbs (2), A.Amarista (1) Series tied 3-3

7

	R	H	E
Pittsburgh	2	6	3	Box
Spaten	6	7	0	Box
WP - H.Alvarez (2-0) LP - C.Hamels (0-1) HR: Pgh: J.Bruce (1); Spa: D.Fowler (1) Spaten wins series 4-3

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