Shohei Ohtani and Kazuma Okamoto led two-time champion Japan to the World Baseball Classic semifinals for the fifth straight tourney in a 9-3 quarterfinal win over Italy on Thursday.Before a crowd of 41,723 at Tokyo Dome, Ohtani allowed two runs over 4-2/3 innings and helped ignite a four-run third inning with a bunt single as Samurai Japan earned a trip to Miami and a semifinal against either Mexico or Puerto Rico on Monday.Masataka Yoshida broke up the scoreless deadlock with a smashed groundout, and Okamoto, who drove in five runs, blasted a three-run homer to cap the rally.Ohtani began …READ FULL ARTICLE