When Vines was 4 years old, he began throwing around the ball in the yard with his father and grandmother. Football was his best sport. And when he played baseball, he didn’t pitch much.

Vines allowed one run in the third and the other in the sixth. He gave up four hits, issued one walk and hit one batter. There were times when he could’ve unraveled. Instead, he continued pitching.

The Atlanta Braves drafted Darius Vines in the 7th round of the 2019 MLB Draft out of Cal State Bakersfield. Since then, Vines has spent four straight years in the minors before he finally got to ...

Vines, 25, was a 7th rounder in the 2019 MLB Draft out of California State University in Bakersfield, CA, the hometown of fellow AAA pitcher Allan Winans.