He will be remembered more for hitting the ball Endy Chavez turned into one of the premier postseason catches in baseball history.

After that, it will be remembered how his relationship with his manager turned frosty during the NLCS.

If not for Jeff Suppan picking him up after a throwing error in the sixth, Scott Rolen would have been wearing goat horns today.

Yet, lost in Yadier Molina’s two-run, game-winning homer in the ninth inning that sent the Cardinals to the World Series was Rolen’s at-bat in the ninth against Aaron Heilman.

Down 0-and-2, Rolen battled the count full and ripped a single to left and watched Molina rip the next pitch over the left-field wall.

Possibly without Rolen on base Molina doesn’t step outside his approach and attack the first pitch. Maybe Heilman doesn’t come with a change-up. Maybe the Mets’ offensive approach changes in the bottom of the ninth, if the score’s only 2-1.

“At first I didn’t think it was a homer, so I hung back at second,” Rolen said of the game-winning blast.

Who could blame Rolen for believing a well-hit ball to left wasn’t going to be a home run after what Chavez did to him in the sixth?

Chavez got his glove high above the left-field fence to turn Rolen’s two-run homer into an inning-ending double play and keep the score tied at 1.

“I didn’t’ know what happened, I thought it bounced off a wall or something,” Rolen said.

As for the throwing error, the six-time Gold Glove winner wasn’t embarrassed to say the rain on the infield grass played a part.

“It didn’t come out well,” Rolen said. “I picked it up and it was wet. I released it and it took off. Suppan picked me up big time.”

Maybe now with the Cardinals in the World Series for the second time in three years Rolen and La Russa can find a common ground. Rolen is still miffed La Russa didn’t play him in Game 2. Rolen looked at it as a benching. La Russa said he simply saw something in Rolen’s swing that he didn’t like.