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NEW YORK (AP) - Derek Lowe will start for the Boston Red Sox, one victory away from becoming the first major league team to overcome a 3-0 postseason deficit, tonight in Game 7 of the ALCS against the New York Yankees' Kevin Brown. Brown, sidelined for much of September after breaking his non-pitching hand punching a clubhouse wall, won Game 3 of the first-round series against Minnesota. The right-hander lasted just two innings Saturday in the third game against the Red Sox, giving up four runs and five hits. Bothered by a bad back for most of this year, Brown appeared to be uncomfortable on the mound at Fenway Park. Brown was pitching on three days' rest. He threw 57 pitches in Game 3, won by New York 19-8. Lowe was pitching on two days' rest. He allowed three runs and six hits over 5 1-3 innings in Game 4, which Boston won 6-4 in 12 innings. Lowe threw 88 pitches in that game. Yankees manager Joe Torre said he hoped Brown ``is able to go out there and throw strikes and take control.'' ``I'm comfortable with the fact that he says he's OK to pitch,'' Torre said. Brown was 10-6 with a 4.09 ERA during the regular season. If he leaves the game early, Torre said Javier Vazquez probably would be the first pitcher out of the bullpen. Torre spoke with Brown after Game 6 before making his decision. ``Experience is very high on my priority list, especially when it comes to a game like this,'' Torre said. Less than 48 hours after the Yankees were three outs from a sweep, Curt Schilling's 4-2 victory Tuesday night tied the AL championship series 3-3 and put Boston within one victory of becoming the first major league team to overcome a 3-0 postseason deficit. With the benefit of two reversed calls by umpires, the Red Sox are just one win from getting back to the World Series for the first time since 1986 and earning another chance to reverse The Curse. Pitching on a dislocated ankle tendon held down by three sutures put in the day before, Schilling gave up one run and four hits in seven innings. ``When I saw blood dripping though the sock and he's giving us seven innings in Yankee Stadium, that was storybook,'' Boston first baseman Kevin Millar said. The Yankees, who rallied from a 5-2, eighth-inning deficit in Game 7 last year and won 6-5 on Aaron Boone's homer off Tim Wakefield in the 11th, were ahead 4-3 in the ninth inning of Game 4 Sunday night at Fenway Park only to loss in the 12th.
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