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Once you have a variety of pitches to use, there are a couple of guidelines you should follow when deciding where and how to pitch.

• With slow pitch, it is unlikely that you are going to strike out the batter.  Instead, you want to throw pitches to which the batter cannot make solid contact or hits towards the best gloves on your team.  If you get the batter to hit the ball where you want rather than where he wants, you have done a good job.
• In general, the best two locations to pitch are high and inside or low and outside.  A batter will want to pull an inside pitch, and this is harder if it is high.  If the ball is low and outside, the batter will not be able to get full power in his swing.  He may try to pull the ball, but if it's low, it will more likely be a grounder.
• Remember that as soon as the ball leaves your hand, you are a fielder.  Set up so can catch that grounder or line drive heading right at you.
• Remember to adjust the speed on the ball.  This can set off the timing of the batters.  Also, the more speed you put on the ball, the easier it is for someone to hit it farther.  Spin pitches can also add speed to the ball.
• Work on getting ahead in the count early.  This forces the batter to consider swinging at less than ideal pitches to protect the strike zone.
• When pitching to a weaker hitter, you may want to make it easy for them to get the ball into play.  It can be easier to get them to hit into an easy out or even better a double play.