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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 2021 Entrants (in order of seeding): 
          
            - Level Eleven (87-63)
 
            - Pittsburgh (83-67)
 
            - Minnesota (79-71)
 
            - Knoxville (78-72)
 
           
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           Semifinals - Knoxville vs. Level Eleven; Minnesota vs. Pittsburgh 
            
		  Knoxville won 4 games to 0
		   Pittsburgh won 4 games to 1
             
          Finals - Knoxville vs. Pittsburgh 
		  Season series: Knoxville won 5-1 
          2021 Gore Cup Winner - Pittsburgh won 4 games to 1 
            
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Knoxville | 2 | 5 | 2 | Box  |  | Pittsburgh | 8 | 12 | 0 |  WP - M.Fried (1-0)  LP - Knox BP (0-1) HR: Knox: J.Martinez (1); Pitt: M.Betts 2 (2), B.Harper (1) Pittsburgh leads 1-0 |   
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          | Extra Innings | R | H | E |   |  | Knoxville | 6 | 11 | 2 | Box  |  | Pittsburgh | 7 | 7 | 2 |  WP - Pitt BP (1-0)  LP - E.Rodriguez (0-1) HR: Knox: G.Springer (1), P.Alonso (1); Pitt: A.Hays (1) Pittsburgh leads 2-0 |   
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Pittsburgh | 6 | 8 | 0 | Box  |  | Knoxville | 3 | 9 | 2 |  WP - Pitt BP (2-0)  LP - W.Miley (0-1) HR: Knox: Y.Grandal (1) Pittsburgh leads 3-0 |   
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Pittsburgh | 4 | 9 | 1 | Box  |  | Knoxville | 7 | 11 | 0 |  WP - Knox BP (1-1)  LP - Z.Gallen (0-1) HR: Pitt: M.Olson (1); Knox: P.Alonso (2), J.Martinez (2), F.Tatis (1) Pittsburgh leads 3-1 |   
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Pittsburgh | 8 | 9 | 1 | Box  |  | Knoxville | 4 | 4 | 1 |  WP - Pitt BP (3-0)  LP - M.Manning (0-1) HR: Pitt: A.Hays (2); Knox: F.Reyes (1) Pittsburgh wins series 4-1 |   
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          Semifinal One | 
          Semifinal Two | 
         
        
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Knoxville | 10 | 9 | 1 | Box  |  | Level Eleven | 3 | 10 | 0 |  WP - Knox BP (1-0)  LP - Y.Darvish (0-1) HR: Knox: F.Reyes (1), E.Rosario (1); LE: A.Judge (1) Knoxville leads 1-0 |      | 
          
          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Minnesota | 3 | 8 | 0 | Box  |  | Pittsburgh | 4 | 5 | 2 |  WP - M.Fried (1-0)  LP - T.Anderson (0-1) HR: Minn: C.Seager (1); Pitt: M.Betts (1) Pittsburgh leads 1-0 |      | 
         
        
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Knoxville | 4 | 9 | 0 | Box  |  | Level Eleven | 3 | 8 | 1 |  WP - E.Rodriguez (1-0)  LP - W.Buehler (0-1) HR: Knox: J.Aguilar (1), F.Reyes (2); LE: A.Judge (2) Knoxville leads 2-0 |      | 
          
          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Minnesota | 4 | 5 | 3 | Box  |  | Pittsburgh | 7 | 9 | 0 |  WP - Pitt BP (1-0)  LP - A.Alzolay (0-1) HR: Minn: J.Soto (1); Pitt: M.Machado (1) Pittsburgh leads 2-0 |      | 
         
        
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Level Eleven | 3 | 8 | 0 | Box  |  | Knoxville | 11 | 17 | 0 |  WP - Knox BP (2-0)  LP - K.Gibson (0-1) HR: Knox: M.Muncy (1), F.Reyes (3) Knoxville leads 3-0 |      | 
          
          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Pittsburgh | 2 | 9 | 1 | Box  |  | Minnesota | 5 | 8 | 0 |  WP - T.Widener (1-0)  LP - C.Mize (0-1) HR: Minn: R.Jeffers (1) Pittsburgh leads 2-1 |      | 
         
        
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Level Eleven | 10 | 18 | 1 | Box  |  | Knoxville | 11 | 11 | 2 |  WP - V.Gutierrez (1-0)  LP - M.Perez (0-1) HR: LE: T.Stephenson (1), A.Judge (3) Knoxville wins series 4-0 |      | 
          
          | Extra Innings | R | H | E |   |  | Pittsburgh | 6 | 12 | 0 | Box  |  | Minnesota | 5 | 10 | 1 |  WP - Pitt BP (2-0)  LP - P.Blackburn (0-1) HR: Pitt: M.Olson (1), B.Reynolds (1); Minn: A.Riley (1), M.Conforto (1), W.Flores (1) Pittsburgh leads 3-1 |      | 
         
        
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Pittsburgh | 9 | 8 | 0 | Box  |  | Minnesota | 2 | 14 | 3 |  WP - Z.Gallen (1-0)  LP - A.Nola (0-1) HR: Pitt: T.Turner 2 (2), B.Harper (1), M.Machado (2), C.Kelly (1) Pittsburgh wins series 4-1 |      | 
         
        
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