Translation tirade trashed

NEW YORK - Boston Red Sox announcer Jerry Remy apologized on Wednesday for his on-air remarks a night earlier that pitchers such as Yankees star Masahiro Tanaka shouldn't be allowed to have translators on the mound.

During the NESN broadcast of the Boston-New York game at Yankee Stadium on Tuesday night, Remy said pitchers such as Tanaka, who is Japanese, "should learn baseball language".

"Last night, during the course of the Red Sox-Yankees game I made some comments that offended a number of people in our audience," Remy said at the start of Wednesday's telecast.