Joey Votto’s comic persona is about as carefully cultivated as his batting eye.

On an episode of David Letterman’s My Next Guest Needs No Introduction… on Netflix, the host told guest Jerry Seinfeld about a time Joey Votto broke from his on-deck routine to thank him for coming out to the game. Letterman suggested he was stunned that a player as venerable as Votto should be so outgoing during a game, and asked Seinfeld if anything similar had ever happened to him.

“Yes it has,” the comedian said. “With Joey Votto.

“I’m not lying. I’m not lying. I was at a Dodger game, like a month ago, and Joey Votto — you think I’m making this up? I’m not…. Joey Votto turns to me and he goes, ‘Hey, Jerry, how you doing?’ I just leaped out of my skin, I was so excited. Joey Votto knows who I am!”

But Votto seems to delight in playing the heel, and told C. Trent Rosecrans of The Athletic that he never intended to greet Letterman or Seinfeld.

Joey Votto remains the best.