Few jobs in baseball are harder than being a closer.

Jeff Hoffman knows that well, and Toronto’s ninth inning man was devastated after the team’s Game 7 loss Saturday to the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Hoffman entered the game with the Jays up a run and four outs away from glory and got the first two, one to end the eighth, and a strikeout to start the ninth inning, before things unravelled.

Dodgers second baseman Miguel Rojas stunned everyone by taking Hoffman out of the park on a 3-and-2 pitch to tie the game and just like that, momentum had shifted.

After the Dodgers had won the game and been crowned world champions their celebration began, but it was quite a different story in an eerily quiet Blue Jays locker room once the media was allowed inside.

Ernie Clement, who set a record for pla

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