What do Blue Jays fans see when they pack the Rogers Centre with regularity?

On most nights, they see a team with the best home record in baseball.

On Tuesday night, however, the sellout throng of 42,235 witnessed a car crash of a collapse by the Blue Jays bullpen in one of the most disheartening defeats of the season for the first-place team.

The big damage came off the right-hand offerings of closer Jeff Hoffman, who gave up a pair of home runs in the ninth inning, allowing four runs for his seventh blown save of the season.

Stunned silence at the dome quickly morphed into boos of Hoffman, both after he allowed his second homer of the four-run Twins killing of an inning and again when manager John Schneider removed him from a game in which the Jays would lose, 7-5.

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