Blue Jays closer Jeff Hoffman knows he has to be better for what looms as the most important assignments of his career.

He knows he has to be sharper with the game on the line as the Jays’ last man standing, a task he has handled too inconsistently through his first year in Toronto.

And Hoffman is well aware of what has to happen between now — and more specifically in the aftermath of his most recent implosion on Wednesday, a solo homer allowed to Yanier Diaz in the ninth — for him to get there.

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So what is he going to do about it?

Prior to Wednesday’s latest crushing result — the 15th home run he has allowed this season, tied for the most allowed by a reliever in the majors — Hoffman spoke of his work in progress.

“We’ve been

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