"I'm not a saviour," he said before he played his first major league game for the Toronto Blye Jays in Baltimore last Friday.
He may want to re-think that after his first major league series.
On Friday, the highly touted 21 year-old from Langley BC - who destroyed pitching in AAA Las Vegas - had his first major league hit and rbi in a Blue Jays win. On Sunday afternoon, he hit his first major league home run.
In the post game interview, JP Arencibia, Ricky Romero and Brett Cecil gave him a double shaving cream pie-gatorade shower. Welcome to the bigs, young fella.
"Obviously it's a plus cause now I know I can stick, I can play with these guys," Lawrie said Sunday afternoon. "I knew before, but it was a question of getting the opportunity."
Lawrie's weekend was made the more special with his parents - Russ and Cheryl - on hand along with his sister Danielle who made the trip.
"After his first game we were back at the hotel sitting and waiting for him and when he walked in he had a smile on his face," said a proud father Russ on Sunday. "I remember that smile when he was 4 or 5 years old. That pretty much told the whole story."
"To step in and do what he did, what can you say? He has tremendous power and he showed a glimpe of that in this series in Baltimore," said manager John Farrell.
Tuesday afternoon Lawrie - acquired in the off season for Shaun Marcum - will play on Canadian soil for the first time as a big leaguer.
It was at Rogers Centre where Lawrie as a youngster took a bunch of dirt from the pitchers mound, with the intention of one day returning as a big league player. Mission accomplished.
"It's going to be a lot of fun," said Lawrie. "There's a lot of people who want to see all of us play. Hopefully I can show something to somebody who hasn't seen me play before."
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