You are virtually guaranteed to hear it, every time the D-backs’ offense struggles against a back-end starter from the opponent’s rotation. After a few innings, wails of “Why do we always make scrubs look like Cy Young candidates?” will go up in the Gameday Thread. However, the reality is that any such belief has no basis in fact. It’s simply a result of selective memory: we don’t remember the times the D-backs took such pitchers to the wood-shed, or the times they made Cy Young candidates look like scrubs. For example, fans conveniently forget the game in May where Arizona took Philadelphia’s Ranger Suarez - currently 7-2 with a 1.
The myth of the D-backs hitters vs. scrubs
