Odds and ends

Still no starter for Game 4. Torre says Lowe is still a possibility, but my money’s on Kershaw. … Charlie Manuel will manage today, but after that, it remains up in the air. June Manuel was 87 and still lived, according to Phillies PR chief Greg Casterioto, in the same house where Charlie and his nine siblings grew up. She had gone into the hospital earlier this week and passed this morning. … The shadows are already almost all the way across the infield, so they shouldn’t be much of a factor come game time, which is still about an hour away. It is an absolutely gorgeous autumn day here, and the game time temp is going to be well into the 70s.