Humiliating moment Canadian hockey fans think Blue Jays won the World Series and celebrate mid-game

All of Canada was rooting for the Toronto Blue Jays. So, when the team seemed to have won the World Series, the nation erupted wherever they were - only to be brought crashing back down.

Toronto began Game 7 of the World Series up 3-0 on the Los Angeles Dodgers, only to fall apart in the top of the ninth inning when closer Jeff Hoffman gave up a solo home run to Miguel Rojas which tied the game.

Still, the Blue Jays still had the bottom of the inning to win the game in regulation and with runners on second and third, they had their best shot to do so.

Daulton Varsho, the outfielder who struggled throughout this Series, smacked a ground ball to second baseman Miguel Rojas - who threw the ball to home plate as pinch-runner Isiah Kiner-Falefa slid into the bag.

At the Rogers Centre, fans celebrated - believing that Kinfer-Falefa got home in time and that the Blue Jays had snapped their 32-year World Series drought.

Across the country, in Edmonton, fans watching an Oilers hockey game believed the same thing. Cheers went up throughout Rogers Place in the middle of action against the Chicago Blackhawks.

Only, the joy was short lived, as Sportsnet broadcaster Harnarayan Singh captured in real time: 'The Blue Jays have just won the World Series! Or no! They're calling him out at home!'

As it turns out, the throw to home by Rojas reached the glove of catcher Will Smith milliseconds before Kiner-Falefa got his foot to the bag and the runner was called out.

Following the game, images showed that Kiner-Falefa was deeply conservative in his base running - standing about two steps off third base and not taking a secondary lead.

Had he done so, he would have beaten the throw home and the Blue Jays would have been victors.

But instead, Kiner-Falefa said that Blue Jays third base coach Carlos Febles - who made multiple horrible decisions this Series to cost Toronto victories - told him to stay close to the bag.

'They told us to stay close to the base,' Kiner-Falefa told reporters. 'They don't want us to get doubled off in that situation with a hard line drive... It was obviously a tough play. They got it done. The lead is small. In that situation, you can't get doubled off. I got the best secondary I could from that spot and it didn't work out.'

The Blue Jays didn't recover. Smith hit a solo home run in the top of the 11th inning and Toronto catcher Alejandro Kirk barreled up a broken-bat ground ball which turned into a double play for the Dodgers to become the first repeat World Series champions in 25 years.

It's the sixth Game 7 defeat for Toronto sports teams in the past five years.