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The moment everyone at the Rogers Centre was anticipating yesterday arrived with one out in the sixth inning.

Blue Jays manager John Gibbons strolled to the mound -- to a chorus of boos -- as Ted Lilly casually chatted with second baseman Aaron Hill.

Five days earlier, this exact scenario got somewhat testy with Lilly refusing to hand over the ball to his manager, the two exchanging unpleasantries on the mound and then reconvening in the tunnel between the dugout and clubhouse where they really expressed themselves and had to be separated by teammates.

But this time, when Gibbons stuck out his hand for the ball, Lilly handed it over. And then, for good measure, Gibbons gave his left-hander a fatherly pat on the backside that not even the conspiracy theorists among us could construe as anything but friendly.

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