The Los Angeles Dodgers secured their eighth World Series championship in franchise history earlier this week by following their scouting report that proved to be more than accurate.

The Dodgers’ plan? Let the New York Yankees have their way.

Joel Sherman of the New York Post wrote Thursday that the Dodgers viewed New York as the worst-positioned outfield in baseball heading into the World Series. But that’s not all.

“What the Dodgers told their players in scouting meetings was that the Yankees valued talent over fundamentals,” Sherman wrote. “That if you run the bases with purpose and aggression, the Yankees will do themselves harm, as was revealed by (Mookie) Betts, Tommy Edman, Freddie Freeman, etc. That the value was very high in putting the ball in play the Yankees are being executed. They said the Yankees were…the worst team in the Majors in every way.

All of these words rang true in the World Series.

For example, in Game 1, Shohei Ohtani took third base on an error by Juan Soto on a bad throw to second base. The next batter, Mookie Betts, hit a sacrifice fly to center field to bring Ohtani home and tie the game 2-2. The Dodgers ultimately won on Freddie Freeman’s walk-off grand slam.

In Game 3, the Yankees’ poor baserunning was on display when the not-so-speedy Giancarlo Stanton was thrown out at home by Teoscar Hernandez. In Game 4, rookie phenom Anthony Volpe failed to score from second base on a double off the wall.

The Yankees’ mistakes really came back to haunt them in the fifth inning of Game 5. In one of the worst defensive frames in World Series history, the Yankees committed three errors and allowed five runs (all unearned) to score with two outs . Aaron Judge missed a can of corn in center field, Anthony Volpe botched a throw to third base and starting pitcher Gerrit Cole forgot to cover first base on a routine ground ball to Anthony Rizzo, which should have ended the inning before a single run was scored scored. .

The Dodgers were right: The Yankees got in their own way and paved the way to Los Angeles, where a championship parade took place Friday at Gloria Molina Grand Park.

New York’s biggest priority this season will be retaining superstar Juan Soto, the biggest name on the free agent market. But another top priority should be for manager Aaron Boone’s team to return to the basic principles that cost them a shot at a World Series title.