Scotty who? That's right, it's Podsednik who wins it

CHICAGO -- Eddie Mathews, Bill Mazeroski, Mickey Mantle, Carlton Fisk, Kirk Gibson, Mark McGwire, Kirby Puckett, Derek Jeter and ...

Scott Podsednik, who had no homers during the regular season, watches his Game 2 winner. (Getty Images)

Scott -- no, come on.

Pod -- aw get out. There's no way.

Sed -- shut up.

Nik.

Quick, somebody double-check this with the replays. Triple-check it. Witnesses swear on a stack of Bibles that was Scott Podsednik pumping both arms up in the air and soaking up the love of the 41,432 romantics wildly celebrating an even wilder Chicago 7-6 shot in the dark in Game 2 of this World Series.

Stunning thing is, there's video to confirm this.

Key Players

Hero: S. Podsednik, CHW

Smacks walk-off homer off Brad Lidge after hitting none in regular season

Goat: B. Lidge, HOU

Gives up walk-off HR to Scott Podsednik, second big gopher ball of postseason

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If ever there was a more unlikely man to join the select list -- part of which is noted up there in the first paragraph -- and crank only the 14th walk-off home run in World Series history, well, let's just say there would be about 10 or 12 men in the White Sox clubhouse we would guess before we even thought of Scott Eric Podsednik.

Including the batboy and the equipment manager.

Can you blame Houston closer Brad Lidge for taking his 99-mph heater and smoking it down the pipe with the score tied 6-6, the count 2-and-1 and one out in the bottom of the ninth? Can you really blame him?

Podsednik collected exactly zero (0) home runs in 507 at-bats during the 2005 season.

Sure, he walloped one against Boston in Game 1 of the division series, but that only lessened the odds that he would pull the stunt again. Didn't it?

"When balls come off of his bat, you don't really think home run," said Sox cleanup man Paul Konerko, who should have been the hero on this crazy, waterlogged and downright raw evening when he belted a dramatic grand slam against Chad Qualls to lift Chicago to a 6-4 lead in the seventh. "But he's got some home runs. Check the numbers."