Appalachian State’s Isaac Harrow was at the plate in the second inning during the Mountaineers’ game with Wofford Sunday afternoon with runners on second and third base and two outs.

Harrow, who had already delivered a sacrifice fly in the first inning that drove in the Mountaineers’ first run of the game, has been one of Appalachian State’s top hitters lately. One game earlier, he delivered two hits, including an RBI double, and had been intentionally walked in the seventh inning without incident.

So, it was logical to think that Harrow, a .417 hitter, would receive an intentional walk and the Terriers would move on in the Appalachian State order.

However, Wofford chose to pitch to Harrow, who delivered a two-run double down the left-field line. The two runs capped a five-run rally, gave the Mountaineers a 6-1 lead, and Appalachian State cruised to an 11-6 victory.

“I was surprised,” Pollard said about pitching to Harrow. “I really was. He’s swinging it so well, you can argue that you pick your spots as to whether you pitch to him at all. I’m not so sure that they weren’t trying to pitch around him and they just made a mistake. The first two pitches were breaking balls away and that’s what I thought they were doing. Then they came back in with a fastball and my thinking is that maybe somebody missed a spot there.”

“With a 2-0 count, I was looking for a pitch I could drive,” Harrow said. “He threw a kind of middle-in fastball and I didn’t get it up in the air like I was going for, but I got the barrel on it and got it down the line.”

It’s a bad idea to make a mistake against Harrow. The senior from Hickory is the Mountaineers’ all-time leader in RBIs with 180 and total bases and closing in on school records for hits (237, record is 239 by Chris Behne), doubles (tied at 61 with David Rubinstein) and at-bats (700, record is 712 by Behne).

Pollard feels that Harrow’s numbers all-time and for this season should give him some MVP consideration.

“Absolutely,” Pollard said. “He has to be in that conversation. He’s absolutely the guy we want up at the plate when we’ve got runners on base. That says it all right there. He gives opponents too much to worry about. He makes the rest of the guys around him so much better because of the fact you’ve got to be really careful about how you pitch him.”