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Braden Montgomery Season 2023
PositionOF/RHP
Weight217 lbs
Height6-2
ClassSophomore
HometownMadison, Miss.
Career Accolades
- Two-time Pac-12 team champion (2022-23)
- ABCA All-America second team (2023)
- ABCA All-Region first team (2023)
- Pac-12 All-Conference (2023)
- Stanford Regional All-Regional Team (2023)
- USA Collegiate National Team (2023)
- Pac-12 Freshman of the Year (2022)
- Collegiate Baseball Freshman All-America (2022)
- Perfect Game Freshman All-America (2022)
- NCBWA Freshman All-America second team (2022)
- All-Pac-12 honorable mention (2022)
- Two-time John Olerud Two-Way Player of the Week (March 29, 2022, May 17, 2022)
- College Sports Communicators Academic All-District (2023)
- Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll (2023)
As a Sophomore (2023) • Pac-12 Champions
- ABCA All-America second team
- ABCA All-Region first team
- Pac-12 All-Conference
- Stanford Regional All-Regional Team
- Golden Spikes Award Watch List / Midseason Watch List
- Perfect Game Preseason All-America second team
- Baseball America Preseason All-America second team
- NCBWA Preseason All-America second team
- D1Baseball Preseason All-America third team
- Perfect Game Preseason Pac-12 Player of the Year
- D1Baseball Preseason Pac-12 Player of the Year
- USA Collegiate National Team
- John Olerud Two-Way Player of the Year Award watch list
- NCBWA Stopper of the Year watch list
- Pac-12 Preseason All-Conference
- College Sports Communicators Academic All-District
- Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll
- Started all 64 games while batting .336 with 70 runs scored, 14 doubles, a triple, 17 homers and 61 RBIs
- Slugged .611 with a .461 on-base percentage while drawing a team-high 51 walks and 10 hit-by-pitches ... stole six bases in nine attempts
- Hit .289 with 28 runs scored, eight doubles, seven homers and 30 RBIs in Pac-12 play
- Batted .366 with eight runs scored, two doubles, two homers and seven RBIs during the postseason
- Finished the super regional batting .462 with two runs scored, a double and two RBIs
- Compiled 27 multi-hit games, including 11 of his last 20 overall, and hit safely in 48 of 64 games
- Posted 16 multi-RBI games, including posting five-plus on two occasions
- Had a reached base streak of 40 consecutive games snapped in the final game at USC (March 12), but reached in all but five games, including each of the final 28
- All-Stanford Regional selection after connecting for a pair of homers while batting .318 (7-for-22) with five runs scored, a double and four RBIs
- Ranked third in the Pac-12 (26th nationally) with 51 walks
- Homered in seven of his last 20 games
- Batted .455 (5-for-11) with five runs scored, two doubles, a homer and four RBIs in the series at Cal State Fullerton (Feb. 17-19)
- 3-for-3 with three runs scored and his first homer of the season at Cal State Fullerton (Feb. 18)
- 2-for-5 with a pair of doubles at Cal State Fullerton (Feb. 19) – the second of which drove in three runs and put the Cardinal on top in the ninth
- Homered twice and drove in five runs at Pacific (March 1) and hit .600 (9-for-15) with 11 runs scored, a double, two homers and five RBIs over four games against Pacific and CSUB
- 4-for-5 with a double and three runs scored vs. CSU Bakersfield (March 4)
- Drove in five runs while going 2-for-3 with a double and a homer vs. Oregon State (March 18)
- 2-for-3 with three RBIs and a run scored vs. Utah (March 27)
- Connected for a game-tying home run in the fifth inning before contributing the go-ahead RBI-single in the seventh at Oregon (April 16)
- Had a game-tying two-run homer in the bottom of the ninth inning to help Stanford to a 6-5 walk-off victory over California (April 25)
- 3-for-5 with a double, a homer and four RBIs vs. Arizona (May 12)
- Homered in three straight games from May 9-13
- 2-for-5 with two runs scored, a homer and three RBIs vs. California (May 24)
- Connected for a pair of home runs vs. No. 25 Texas A&M in the Stanford Regional, including going 3-for-4 with two runs scored and a homer in the regional final (June 5)
- Earned the victory after tossing two innings and striking out three at Cal State Fullerton (Feb. 19)
- Struck out four over two innings in a start vs. No. 21 Texas Tech (April 11)
- Pitched 2 1/3 innings with three strikeouts vs. No. 25 Texas A&M (June 4)
As a Freshman (2022) • Pac-12 Champions
- Pac-12 Freshman of the Year
- Collegiate Baseball Freshman All-America
- Perfect Game Freshman All-America
- NCBWA Freshman All-America second team
- All-Pac-12 honorable mention
- John Olerud Two-Way Player of the Year semifinalist
- Two-time John Olerud Two-Way Player of the Week (March 29, May 17)
- Hit .294 with 50 runs scored, 16 doubles, two triples and 18 home runs while driving in 57
- 18 home runs ranked third on the team and set a Stanford freshman record
- Slugged .596 and reached at a .361 clip while drawing 18 walks and nine hit by pitches
- Swiped six bases in eight attempts
- Managed seven outfield assists while playing right field
- Made 15 appearances, including three starts, pitching to a 5.79 ERA and limiting opponents to a .182 average against
- Compiled a pair of saves with 28 strikeouts over 18 2/3 innings of work on the mound
- Batted .275 with 17 runs scored, 10 doubles, a triple, eight homers and 26 RBIs in Pac-12 play
- Homered twice, scored seven runs and drove in eight runs in the postseason
- Posted 18 multi-hit games and 16 multi-RBI contests to place second on the team
- Strung together an 11-game hit streak from May 25 to June 12 while batting .306 (15 for 49) with 10 runs scored, a double, a triple, three homers and 11 RBIs
- Reached safely in each of his final 26 games of the season
- Homered in all three games and batted .462 (6 for 13) with four runs scored, a double, three homers and nine RBIs in the series sweep of Arizona State (April 8-10)
- 3 for 5 with two doubles at the plate and five strikeouts in three innings pitched at San Francisco (April 12)
- Made collegiate debut on Opening Day vs. Cal State Fullerton, striking out a pair to record his first career save in a 1-0 shutout victory (Feb. 18)
- Debuted in the field and went 3 for 5 with two home runs, six RBIs and three runs scored against Cal State Fullerton (Feb. 20) ... became first freshman with a multi-homer game since Alex Blandino hit two vs. Arizona State on April 20, 2012
- Go-ahead RBI-double in the 10th inning to hand Stanford a 1-0 victory at No. 3 Oregon State (April 1)
- Launched a pair of home runs vs. Grand Canyon (April 22)
- Homered and collected the save in a 3-2 win vs. CSUN (March 6)
- Fell a single short of the cycle (3 for 3) and drove in three runs vs. USC (May 20)
- 3 for 5 with two runs scored, a double and two RBIs vs. Binghamton (June 3)
- Invited to 50-man 2022 USA Baseball Collegiate National Team Training Camp
Prior to Stanford
- 2021 graduate of Madison Central High School in Madison, Miss.
- Guided Madison Central to a state championship and a No. 1 ranking according to Baseball America in 2021
- Mississippi Gatorade Player of the Year (2021)
- National High School All-America (2021)
- Two-time All-State first team (2019, 2021)
- No. 1 high school prospect out of Mississippi and No. 23 nationally according to Perfect Game
Personal
- Son of Marcus Montgomery and Gretchen and Richard Willock
- Father played football at Iowa
- Stepfather played football at Iowa
- Mother ran track at Iowa
- Uncle, Larry Montgomery, played football at Arizona State
- Has three siblings, Skylar, Mason and Marley
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Spring Academic Honor Roll
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Season Ends in Omaha
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More All-America Honors
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Mathews Twirls One for the Books
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Ninth Inning Woes
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Super Regional Bound
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Cardinal Drops Game to Aggies
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Cardinal Falls in Semifinals
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Cardinal Scores Big Late
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Stanford Cleans Up Yearly Awards
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Mathews Fans Eight in Victory
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Stanford Clinches Pac-12 Title
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Stanford Walks Off with Game One
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Stanford Wins Tuesday Slugfest
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Free Passes Hurt Cardinal
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Stanford Rallies to Walk Off Cal
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Early Deficit Costs Card
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Card Rallies To Down Ducks
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Ducks Take Game Two
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Stanford Splits with Texas Tech
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Big Innings Lead to Victory
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Stanford Falls a Run Short
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Stanford Powers Way to Victory
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Offense Leads Way to Sweep
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Scott Tosses Gem to Win Series
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Doubleheader Split
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Eleven for Eleven
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Cardinal Clinches Series Victory
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Mathews Twirls Gem in Victory
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Never Quit
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Cardinal Wins a Thriller
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National-Best Five All-Americans
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More All-America Honors
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Preseason Praise
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Bruno Earns National Team Spot
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2022 Season in Review
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All-America Accolades Continue
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Ticket Punched
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No. 2 Stanford Forces Game Three
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Eight Home Runs Not Enough
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Freshman All-American
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Instant Classic
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Record-Setting Victory
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Cardinal Clinches Pac-12 Title
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Dixon Shines in Return to Utah
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Seven-Run Fifth Keys Victory
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Down but Never Out
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Homers Guide Cardinal to Rout
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Comeback Falls Short
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Saturday Split
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Cardinal Holds off Cal Poly
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Series Evened
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Walk-Off Win on Wild Pitch
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Offense Erupts in Sunday Sweep
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Three-Hit Shutout From Williams
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Midweek Setback
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Weekend Sweep
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Walk-Off Win in Twelve
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Stanford Suffers Sweep
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More Eighth-Inning Heartbreak
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Stunned in Tucson
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Cardinal Secures Series Win
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Stanford Upended in Extras
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No. 6 Stanford Tops Louisiana
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Shutout Victory Opens 2022
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Conference Honors
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