He reached the summit at 10:07pm on August 13, 2016. It was — and remains — a remarkable achievement, given that on May 31st, a full two months into the season, he was still bivouacked at his own personal base camp, disoriented by muscles and memory rendered insufficient by opposing forces on the hill some sixty feet away. A .213 batting average, a .330 on-base percentage, not to mention a month of April that was the worst of his career weren’t just base camp for Joey Votto — this was the low point of a career that had seen him among the very best hitters in Major League Baseball.