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He does have some gaming experience, though. The Rangers team, they ranked us pretty low, so it makes it tougher to compete with the team that I'm given. Every game had so much pressure, but I definitely didn't expect to do this well going into it. "Everyone was coming for me," Gallo said. Giolito managed to hand Gallo just his second loss of the season with a walk-off home run. I was a little nervous, a little sweaty and I didn't come out of the gates too hot, so when I saw Joey was hitting mammoth homers nonstop and meanwhile I'm over here struggling, I thought I was gonna get smoked." "I lost my first game to Luke Jackson and I was nervous going in because it was weird, uncharted territory for me. "I'm not gonna lie, I was kind of scared to face him because I didn't get off to a hot start," said Chicago White Sox starter Lucas Giolito, the No. 2 seed - despite controlling one of the lower-ranked teams in the game. In a league composed entirely of some of the most competitive athletes in the world, Gallo had quickly become the man to beat, and now he enters the playoffs as the No. After the first weekend of games, Gallo was 4-0. I was just hoping to win a few games, maybe I'll go.
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"I knew I was pretty good, but I didn't know how good everyone else was. "I was really nervous because I didn't know how good I was, because I didn't play that much," Gallo said. How video games are bringing MLB players and fans together. But he doubted his own abilities with the sticks. When Gallo got word from his agent that MLB and the players' association were organizing an official Twitch league to livestream the critically acclaimed baseball simulation MLB The Show - similar to what the NBA had done with NBA 2K - he recognized it as a unique way for the league to reach out to its fans, and for his fellow players to flex their personalities. What Gallo didn't know, though, was just how incredibly good he'd be. "When I saw basketball doing it, I thought, why aren't we doing this?" "They should have done this a long time ago," the Texas Rangers slugger said of the league, which begins its televised postseason schedule Friday. He knew how much fans have missed live sports during the coronavirus pandemic, and he knew the opportunity video games represented for Major League Baseball. Joey Gallo jumped at the chance to join the MLB The Show Players League.