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Dallas Braden beats A's Jesus Luzardo in MLB The Show 20, talks smack

Be careful what you wish for.

If you're going to challenge NBC Sports California's Dallas Braden to anything, just be prepared for some trash talk. Especially if he wins.

A's phenom Jesus Luzardo is representing Oakland in the round-robin "MLB The Show 20" video game tournament currently going on while the MLB season is indefinitely paused due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. To warm up for it, he figured he'd take on the much more senior Braden to ease into the competition.

Welp. That backfired.

Braden and Luzardo went head-to-head Tuesday night, and in case you couldn't tell by Braden's resulting tweet, he, uh, won.