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White Sox right fielder Braden Montgomery slides into second base after hitting a double during the seventh inning against the Guardians at Rate Field on Monday, June 22, 2026, in Chicago. (Armando L. Sanchez\/Chicago Tribune)<\/p>\n
\u201cI got something over the plate and did something positive with it and was excited to be able to make that happen,\u201d Montgomery said.<\/p>\n
It was the first of two doubles on Monday for Montgomery in the 6-5 victory<\/a> at Rate Field. Montgomery went 2-for-3 with two runs and a walk.<\/p>\n He entered Tuesday\u2019s game against the Guardians with five hits in his last 10 at-bats.<\/p>\n \u201cAfter the first couple of games (in the major leagues) were so good for Braden, they started attacking with the fastballs,\u201d manager Will Venable said on Monday. \u201cAnd he\u2019s made a really good adjustment.\u201d<\/p>\n Montgomery had four hits in his first two big-league games, including the walk-off two-run home run<\/a> in the ninth inning of his debut on June 9 against the Atlanta Braves<\/a>. He was 2-for-23 over the next seven games. He\u2019s rebounded with the five hits in the last three games.<\/p>\n Montgomery came into Tuesday slashing .262\/.311\/.452 with five doubles, one home run, five RBIs and seven runs in 12 games. He\u2019s had four multi-hit games.<\/p>\n A big moment on Monday came when he showed patience in the ninth inning. The Sox were on the ropes after giving up the lead in the top of the ninth. Trailing by a run with one out, Montgomery faced Guardians closer Cade Smith.<\/p>\n \u201cAnother power arm,\u201d Montgomery said. \u201cGive yourself the best chance to be successful. Breathe. Eliminate everything except for wanting to hit a strike and wanting to take where he\u2019s wanting to get you to chase.\u201d<\/p>\n Montgomery took a strike but then laid off the next four pitches out of the zone to draw a walk.<\/p>\n \u201cHe\u2019s got some really powerful pitches,\u201d Montgomery said. \u201cYou\u2019ve got to be able to lay off the splitter down, heater up, and then you\u2019ve got to be able to get a good swing off on time once he comes to see you because he\u2019s got power stuff.<\/p>\n \u201cThat\u2019s kind of the mindset. Let\u2019s get something to deal with and not expand to help him out. With power stuff like that, any time you\u2019re leaving the zone that puts you in that much more of a hole.\u201d<\/p>\n Representing the tying run, Montgomery quickly advanced to third on Tristan Peters\u2019 check-swing double. Both Montgomery and Peters scored on Sam Antonacci\u2019s two-out, game-winning single to center field.<\/p>\n It was the sixth walk-off victory of the season for the Sox, tied with the Seattle Mariners for the most in the American League.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s falling back on your preparation,\u201d Montgomery said of the team\u2019s late-inning performances. \u201cYou have done your best to give yourself the best chance at success in moments like those. You don\u2019t panic.<\/p>\n \u201cWe play a lot of games. You either execute or you don\u2019t. And so you really just put your best foot forward and live with the results and be convicted in what you\u2019re doing.\u201d<\/p>\n Montgomery is enjoying doing his part to contribute.<\/p>\n \u201cEven having a couple of good games, you\u2019ve still got to show up to the ballyard the next day and put your work in and prepare for whatever you might see because all you can do as a hitter is do with what you\u2019re given from the pitchers,\u201d Montgomery said.<\/p>\n \u201cThe past couple of days I\u2019ve been given pitches that I could handle and put a swing on, but that\u2019s no guarantee that something similar would happen tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Monday\u2019s second-inning at-bat provided excellent insight into Chicago White Sox rookie outfielder Braden Montgomery\u2019s approach at the plate.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":733866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2380],"tags":[5,49,135,51,2565,538,4,256,91389,998],"class_list":["post-733865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cleveland-guardians","tag-baseball","tag-chicago-white-sox","tag-cleveland","tag-cleveland-guardians","tag-clevelandguardians","tag-guardians","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-baseball","tag-rookie-braden-montgomery","tag-will-venable"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116802111951556967","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=733865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/733866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=733865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=733865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=733865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"White](\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/CTC-L-sox-guardians-0622-70_263990097.jpg\")
White Sox right fielder Braden Montgomery walks to the dugout after left fielder Sam Antonacci hit a walk-off two-RBI single to give the White Sox a 6-5 win over the Guardians at Rate Field on Monday, June 22, 2026, in Chicago. (Armando L. Sanchez\/Chicago Tribune)<\/p>\n