TORONTO — Blue Jays coach Don Mattingly 36th MLB season, this one with what he calls a “special, special” team, ended with one of the toughest World Series defeats imaginable in Mattingly’s first appearance in the Fall Classic.

But afterward, Mattingly wasn’t saying whether his illustrious 36-year major league career might be coming to a close, too.

“Tough time to talk about that,” Mattingly told The Post outside the Jays clubhouse after the Jays’ 5-4, 11-inning Game 7 defeat left them as World Series runners-up to the repeat champion $400M Dodgers.

Yankees great and Blue Jays bench coach Don Mattingly fell just short of capturing an elusive World Series ring. AP

Mattingly, a consummate professional over a superb 14-year playing career and 22-year managing and coaching career, wanted

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