As thunderpumpkin87 showed earlier in June, we have had some really good pitching in Arizona. But recently? Not so much.
You can probably put a precise date on the day Arizona's pitching ceased to be. April 6, 2009. Opening Day, and Brandon Webb took the mound for the Arizona Diamondbacks. He was fresh off a 22-win season, and his third consecutive top-two finish in Cy Young voting. Sure, talks for a long-term contract extension has stopped the previous June, after the team were unable to secure insurance on the pitcher. But Webb had been a workhorse: from 2004-08, no major-league pitcher had more starts (169), or National Leaguer thrown more innings (1,135).