Shohei Ohtani opened the floodgates with a second-inning grand slam as Japan began its World Baseball Classic title defense by demolishing Taiwan 13-0 on Friday.The WBC's reigning MVP brought the crowd of 42,314 at Tokyo Dome to its feet as he put Japan on the board with a bomb deep to right field off a one-out curveball from Cheng Hao-chun (0-1) in the top of the second.Samurai Japan piled on 10 runs for the inning, with Ohtani adding another RBI on a line-drive single to right-field after skipper Hirokazu Ibata's men batted through the lineup.The Los Angeles Dodgers' two-way superstar, wh…READ FULL ARTICLE