NEW YORK — Ever since he was a kid watching his father Clay play for the Yankees in the early 2000s, Cody Bellinger visualized himself in Pinstripes someday. That thought never left him, even after his career whisked him far away from the Bronx.

Cody Bellinger was trying to do too much at the start of his Yankees tenure, but now, his poise has returned and the result has been glaring.