The Best of the Worst
The Bottom Feeder Open - playing for pride and a few bucks.
A small taste of post season baseball as the third and fourth place
teams get a chance to play a few more games. Teams are ranked
1-8, based on season record and play a 3-game quarterfinal series.
Winners are re-seeded and play a 3-game semifinal.
The two remaining teams square off in a best-of-five finals.
The winner receives a bonus of 500,000 Benchwarmer Bucks.
The runner-up gets 250,000.
2014 Finals: Kansas City vs. Backyard
Season series: Kansas City 5-1
2014 Winner - Backyard won 3 games to 2
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Finals
Game
Kansas City vs. Backyard
1
Extra Innings R H E Kansas City 4 12 1 Box
Backyard 5 9 1 WP - S.Gray (1-0) LP - A.Sanchez (0-1) HR: KC: J.Altuve (1) Backyard leads 1-0
2
R H E Kansas City 4 10 1 Box
Backyard 3 9 0 WP - J.Zimmermann (1-0) LP - M.Shoemaker (0-1) HR: Back: J.Reddick (1) Series tied 1-1
3
R H E Backyard 3 5 0 Box
Kansas City 2 7 0 WP - C.Morton (1-0) LP - KC BP (0-1) HR: Back: M.Holliday (1) Backyard leads 2-1
4
R H E Backyard 6 8 0 Box
Kansas City 7 15 0 WP - KC BP (1-1) LP - J.Collmenter (0-1) HR: Back: M.Holliday (2); KC: A.Gonzalez (1) Series tied 2-2
5
R H E Kansas City 3 7 0 Box
Backyard 7 8 1 WP - J.Happ (1-0) LP - KC BP (1-2) HR: Back: D.Santana (1), C.Utley (1), V.Martinez (1) Backyard wins series 3-2
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Semifinals
Game
Semifinal One
Semifinal Two
1
R H E Kansas City 4 9 0 Box
Oklahoma 1 5 3 WP - M.Minor (1-0) LP - OK BP (0-1) HR: KC: A.Gonzalez (1), M.Betts (1) Kansas City leads 1-0
R H E Backyard 5 4 1 Box
Death Valley 2 11 0 WP - J.Collmenter (1-0) LP - J.Quintana (0-1) HR: Back: V.Martinez (1), C.Asche (1); DV: C.Ruiz (1) Backyard leads 1-0
2
R H E Oklahoma 3 6 2 Box
Kansas City 4 8 1 WP - KC BP (1-0) LP - OK BP (0-2) HR: KC: J.Upton (1) Kansas City wins series 2-0
Extra Innings R H E Death Valley 6 10 2 Box
Backyard 5 12 0 WP - H.Santiago (1-0) LP - J.Happ (0-1) HR: DV: M.Ozuna (1) Series tied 1-1
3
Extra Innings R H E Backyard 5 13 2 Box
Death Valley 4 11 0 WP - S.Gray (1-0) LP - Z.Greinke (0-1) HR: Back: V.Martinez (2); DV: J.Ellsbury (1) Backyard wins series 2-1
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Quarterfinals
Game
Quarterfinal One
Quarterfinal Two
1
R H E Chicago 1 4 2 Box
Oklahoma 8 11 1 WP - M.Scherzer (1-0) LP - J.Verlander (0-1) HR: OK: M.Teixeira 2 (2) Oklahoma leads 1-0
R H E Kansas City 3 8 1 Box
Lake Tahoe 2 5 0 WP - A.Sanchez (1-0) LP - E.Santana (0-1) HR: KC: P.Goldschmidt (1) Kansas City leads 1-0
2
R H E Oklahoma 0 6 2 Box
Chicago 6 11 0 WP - O.Despaigne (1-0) LP - J.Shields (0-1) HR: none Series tied 1-1
R H E Lake Tahoe 2 7 0 Box
Kansas City 7 7 3 WP - J.Zimmermann (1-0) LP - J.Vargas (0-1) HR: none Kansas City wins series 2-0
3
R H E Chicago 0 8 2 Box
Oklahoma 2 10 2 WP - J.Samardzija (1-0) LP - Chi BP (0-1) HR: none Oklahoma wins series 2-1
Game
Quarterfinal Three
Quarterfinal Four
1
R H E Backyard 3 7 2 Box
Cincinnati 2 11 0 WP - S.Gray (1-0) LP - K.Lohse (0-1) HR: none Backyard leads 1-0
R H E Death Valley 5 15 2 Box
SoCal Report 2 6 1 WP - Z.Greinke (1-0) LP - SC BP (0-1) HR: DV: J.Ellsbury (1), M.Ozuna (1) Death Valley leads 1-0
2
R H E Cincinnati 2 8 1 Box
Backyard 3 9 0 WP - M.Shoemaker (1-0) LP - J.Weaver (0-1) HR: Cin: T.Frazier (1) Backyard wins series 2-0
Extra Innings R H E SoCal Report 3 8 1 Box
Death Valley 2 4 0 WP - J.Peavy (1-0) LP - DV BP (0-1) HR: SC: B.McCann (1) Series tied 1-1
3
R H E Death Valley 6 11 3 Box
SoCal Report 5 12 1 WP - D.Fister (1-0) LP - SC BP (0-2) HR: DV: J.Ellsbury (2), D.Ackley 2 (2), M.Cuddyer (1); SC: E.Longoria (1) Death Valley wins series 2-1
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