Colson Montgomery focused on line drives as part of his one-on-one sessions with Chicago White Sox director of hitting Ryan Fuller during the couple of weeks in late April/early May while at the team’s Arizona complex .

“First thing we kind of went to, we wanted to practice trying to keep the ball kind of low to the ground, line drives and things like that,” Montgomery said Monday. “Some of my cues in the cage, I’m trying to hit a low line drive to the shortstop. Keeps me tighter to the ball. Not really a normal home run swing.

“I feel like a lot of the hitters can tell you, if they tried doing home run swings, it’s probably not going to work.”

The shortstop’s approach has been working at the big-league level. Montgomery homered to right field in the fifth inning of Monday’s 2-1 loss

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