- Dave Sheinin
- Reporter
Dave Sheinin has been covering baseball and writing features and enterprise stories for The Washington Post since 1999. His work has been recognized with awards six times by the Associated Press Sports Editors, and in 2010 he received a first-place National Headliner Award for sportswriting for his season-long coverage of Stephen Strasburg’s rookie year. A graduate of Vanderbilt University, where he studied English and music and trained as an opera singer, he lives in Maryland with his wife and two daughters.
Dave Sheinin fills in for Tracee Hamilton to discuss the Nationals and the rest of baseball, plus opera and whatever else you want to talk about.
Dave Sheinin talks Nats, baseball, opera and everything else.
Suspension of umpire a big step
The league’s decision to suspend Bob Davidson is believed to be the first time MLB has suspended an umpire for doing his job poorly.
Significance of this weekend
Unlike past years, the Nats and O’s are very good, and both are playing for first place in their divisions.
Not his sharpest outing
Notwithstanding the two homers he gave up to Andrew McCutchen, this was not as bad a night as it would appear for Nationals right-hander Jordan Zimmermann.
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- Timetable for Michael Morse’s return could accelerate
- Baltimore Orioles, on the heels of a hot start and a 17-inning win, are again thinking ‘Why Not?’
- For Yankees’ Mariano Rivera, an unfathomable ending
- Sailor Matt Rutherford welcomed home in Annapolis after sailing solo around the Americas
- With Pudge Rodriguez, the numbers tell the story
- Taking the measure of Robert Griffin III
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