TORONTO

One day Brett Lawrie may be a very good player.

In the ninth inning of Sunday’s miracle comeback, he appeared to be a selfish one.

With his team trailing 5-3 in the bottom of the ninth following an RBI single by J.P. Arencibia that left runners on the corners, Lawrie hit a routine fly ball to right field and Adam Lind, who has less-than-average speed, was held up at third base.

Upset that Lind was not sent home, Lawrie yelled at both Lind and third base coach Luis Rivera as he made his way to the Toronto Blue Jays dugout.

A run by Lind would have meant nothing, but getting tagged at home would have meant everything at that point. The Jays made the correct call.

Once inside the dugout, Lawrie was barked at by manager John Gibbons with Jose Bautista stepping between them to cool things out.

The Jays would go on to score an additional three runs and pull off the improbable 6-5 walkoff victory with the hope that the fiery Lawrie will learn something from yesterday’s experience.

In the Jays clubhouse he was his usual defiant self in explaining his version of events.

“Not so much heated, just kind of caught up in the moment of trying to score runs and come back against those guys was all,” Lawrie said of his exchange with his manager.

He was asked if he was upset that Lind didn’t attempt to score on his fly ball.

“I’m just trying to help my team, that’s all,” Lawrie said. “We won the game. It is what it is.”

It’s not the first time that Lawrie has let his emotions get the better of him.

“It’s just part of the game,” he said. “In the ninth inning we were down a couple of runs and I was trying to do the job was all. I didn’t get the job done and (was upset) more or less just at myself in general but we won the game so, it’s good.”

The result for the Jays was good, not the show Lawrie put on display.

Did Brett Lawrie deserve to be scolded by John Gibbons?