TORONTO -- No one wanted to go home. Not yet.

Inside the Blue Jays’ clubhouse after Game 7, as the clocks crept further into the next morning, no one wanted to leave. They’d just lost the World Series , 5-4 , in 11 innings to the Dodgers, a heartbreak that may never heal.

Ernie Clement, the breakout star of the Blue Jays’ World Series run , stood in the middle of it all and poured his heart out. He didn’t want this to end. He wanted to pull back the hands on the clocks. He wanted to draw new days on the calendar, anything to spend another moment in this exact room with these exact people.

“I’ve been crying for an hour. I thought I was done with the tears,” Clement said, wiping them away. “I just love these guys so much. It was so much fun coming to work every day.”

This is what t

See Full Page