C should be your correct answer choice!
<span>Stimuli mean a thing that energize someone which causes functional reaction.
Therefore, the sentence which uses the word correctly is:
b. Jill was taken in by the bright lights and other stimuli surrounding her in Las Vegas.
This means that Jill was getting interested to her surroundings due to the lights and other amusing things in Las Vegas which is referred to as the stimuli.</span>
Answer:
The pitcher is kind of anxious and with a lot of anticipation about winning, he's not so sure about throwing the right pitch, he wants to win but deeply somehow he feels the batter is better than him.
Therefore the best answer is the last one:
<em>"The pitcher thinks that the batter is much better than he is."</em>
