Joe Torre hasn’t determined whether he’d like to manage the Dodgers again next year, but he did say before Sunday’s game that he doesn’t intend to keep the ball club hanging. He said he’ll make a decision on his future before the end of the season.

“Just so I don’t hamstring this organization,” said Torre, who is coming to the end of the three-year, $13 million contract he signed when he left the Yankees after the 2007 season. “I’m going to wait [to decide] until later in the season. I have to. It’s not fair to them if I don’t do that.”  Asked if that decision might be made sometime in September, Torre said: “I would hope so.”

Torre, who will be 70 on July 18, has said that his health is the primary factor regarding whether he will return for another season to manage. He’s a prostate cancer survivor, having been diagnosed with the disease during Spring Training 1999. He had surgery and treatment back then, but hasn’t suffered a recurrence.

Still, cancer is always a lingering shadow.

“I hope I feel good enough next year to want to do it again,” he said.

Another thing that doesn’t help Torre in his decision to keep coaching, is having to many more defeats like the one the Dodgers were dealt in the closing game of the Yankee series.

Information from MLB.com was used in this article.