Think or Lose: A Baseball Story

You are pitching the final inning of the State Championship. Brantley High's best three hitters are coming up. Each one has different strengths and weaknesses. Your job as the pitcher is to figure out how to get them out and finish the game based on the scouting report and the hitting chart that you looked at in the dugout between innings.

Your pitches:

Fastball: can be thrown anywhere in the strike zone, it's your pitch with the most velocity but the least movement so it will be fairly straight.

Curveball: breaks in to left handed hitters, away from right handed hitters, should be thrown low in the zone, offspeed pitch with more movement.

Splitfinger: this is another offspeed pitch designed to look like a fastball yet drop off once it gets to the plate. It's slower than a fastball but often fools good hitters into thinking its a easy pitch to hit, should be thrown low and away from the hitter

The first hitter, a big left handed first baseman, struggles with pitches on the inside half of the plate but excels at hitting balls on the middle or outer part of the strike zone. He hit a double earlier in the game when you left a fastball too far over the plate, what do you throw for the first pitch?