""I made it happen pitch by pitch," Montgomery said during a video conference call last week. "Everything was coming together. Every day, I tried to take a little bit of a step forward and I was locked in and seeing the pitches I needed to see. Getting up there and not missing them. "I feel like sometimes when days aren't going as hot, you are missing the fastball or the ball in the middle of the plate you need to hit. I feel like in that stretch, the pitch I needed to put a good swing on, I was able to make that happen.""
""I feel like the culmination of all the failures in the early season and leading up to that midway point, the Futures Game, kind of prepared me to be able to go into the second half and do a lot better," Montgomery said. "A consistent process with a consistency, even in the failures in between. It's been awesome, day by day, getting a little bit better.""
Braden Montgomery led off the second inning of an Aug. 10 game at Chattanooga with a single that began a 14-game hitting streak. He went 20-for-51 during the streak with 12 doubles, eight RBIs, eight walks and a .392/.492/.627 slash line and a 1.119 OPS. Montgomery, 22, earned Chicago White Sox minor-league player of the month honors for August. High-A Winston-Salem left-hander Christian Oppor earned organizational pitcher of the month with a 1.93 ERA, 1.07 WHIP and 31 strikeouts over six starts. Montgomery suffered a small fracture in his right foot after being hit by a pitch and is likely unavailable for the rest of the regular season and postseason.
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