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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 2015 Entrants (in order of seeding):

Kansas City (86-64)
Minneapolis (81-69)
Cincinnati (81-69)
Old Hickory (76-74)

Semifinals - Old Hickory vs. Kansas City; Cincinnati vs. Minneapolis

Kansas City won 4 games to 1

Minneapolis won 4 games to 2

Finals - Minneapolis vs. Kansas City

Season series: Kansas City won 5-1

2015 Gore Cup Winner - Minneapolis won 4 games to 1

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Finals

Game

Minneapolis vs. Kansas City

1

	R	H	E
Minneapolis	3	12	0	Box
Kansas City	8	11	1	Box
WP - J.Arrieta (1-0) LP - M.Scherzer (0-1) HR: KC: M.Machado (1), C.Maybin (1) Kansas City leads 1-0

2

	R	H	E
Minneapolis	5	7	0	Box
Kansas City	4	10	0	Box
WP - J.Teheran (1-0) LP - S.Gray (0-1) HR: Mpls: C.Davis (1), M.Cabrera 2 (2); KC: F.Lindor (1) Series tied 1-1

3

	R	H	E
Kansas City	3	7	2	Box
Minneapolis	9	7	1	Box
WP - L.Lynn (1-0) LP - C.Sale (0-1) HR: Mpls: M.Cabrera (3) Minneapolis leads 2-1

4

	R	H	E
Kansas City	2	9	0	Box
Minneapolis	9	9	2	Box
WP - J.Odorizzi (1-0) LP - F.Hernandez (0-1) HR: KC: S.Marte (1), C.Maybin (2); Mpls: C.Coghlan (1), T.Plouffe (1) Minneapolis leads 3-1

5

	R	H	E
Kansas City	6	10	3	Box
Minneapolis	10	16	0	Box
WP - Mpls BP (1-0) LP - KC BP (0-1) HR: KC: M.Machado (2), E.Gattis (1); Mpls: T.Plouffe 2 (3), M.Trumbo (1) Minneapolis wins series 4-1

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Semifinals

Game

Semifinal One

Semifinal Two

1

	R	H	E
Old Hickory	0	11	1	Box
Kansas City	5	7	0	Box
WP - J.Arrieta (1-0) LP - D.Duffy (0-1) HR: OH: M.Prado (1); KC: E.Gattis (1) Kansas City leads 1-0

Extra Innings	R	H	E
Cincinnati	3	9	2	Box
Minneapolis	4	12	1	Box
WP - Mpls BP (1-0) LP - J.deGrom (0-1) HR: Mpls: D.Gregorius (1) Minneapolis leads 1-0

2

	R	H	E
Old Hickory	3	7	2	Box
Kansas City	5	7	0	Box
WP - S.Gray (1-0) LP - OH BP (0-1) HR: KC: A.McCutchen (1), P.Goldschmidt (1), E.Gattis (2) Kansas City leads 2-0

	R	H	E
Cincinnati	4	8	3	Box
Minneapolis	3	4	1	Box
WP - C.McHugh (1-0) LP - J.Teheran (0-1) HR: Cin: J.Ellsbury (1), A.Gonzalez (1); Mpls: M.Trumbo (1) Series tied 1-1

3

	R	H	E
Kansas City	3	13	0	Box
Old Hickory	2	8	2	Box
WP - C.Sale (1-0) LP - OH BP (0-2) HR: none Kansas City leads 3-0

	R	H	E
Minneapolis	3	5	0	Box
Cincinnati	2	5	3	Box
WP - L.Lynn (1-0) LP - Cin BP (0-1) HR: Cin: J.Peralta (1) Minneapolis leads 2-1

4

	R	H	E
Kansas City	5	11	1	Box
Old Hickory	7	10	0	Box
WP - T.Ross (1-0) LP - F.Hernandez (0-1) HR: KC: A.McCutchen (2), F.Lindor (1); OH: C.Beltran (1) Kansas City leads 3-1

	R	H	E
Minneapolis	3	11	1	Box
Cincinnati	4	11	0	Box
WP - R.Iglesias (1-0) LP - Mpls BP (1-1) HR: Mpls: B.Phillips 2 (2); Cin: C.Granderson (1) Series tied 2-2

5

	R	H	E
Kansas City	5	10	0	Box
Old Hickory	3	9	2	Box
WP - KC BP (1-0) LP - J.Garcia (0-1) HR: KC: J.Altuve (1); OH: J.Rollins (1) Kansas City wins series 4-1

Extra Innings	R	H	E
Minneapolis	3	6	0	Box
Cincinnati	2	10	0	Box
WP - S.Feldman (1-0) LP - C.Morton (0-1) HR: Mpls: M.Trumbo (2) Minneapolis leads 3-2

6

	R	H	E
Cincinnati	0	7	2	Box
Minneapolis	7	9	0	Box
WP - M.Scherzer (1-0) LP - Cin BP (0-2) HR: none Minneapolis wins series 4-2

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