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Ernie Clement was the near-hero the Toronto Blue Jays deserved

Ernie Clement nearly wrote his name in the deepest legends of baseball history.

When he rocked a fly ball deep to left field on Saturday night in the Rogers Centre, needing just the runner from third to get home with two outs in the ninth inning, it looked like Clement may have delivered the biggest swing of his life.

Instead, Dodgers outfielder Andy Pages robbed the Blue Jays' infielder in a crazy collision play. Clement could only chuckle.

Rather than have his storybook World Series end in perfect fashion, Clement will go down as the name who wasn't actually written into walk-off history.

That's not because he didn't put himself in position. Clement's 30 hits this postseason set a new MLB record.

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