|| 15,532 || 1–1 |- style="background:#bbb" | – || April 7 || Pirates || colspan=6 | Postponed (rain); Makeup: August 12 as a traditional double-header |- style="background:#bfb" | 3 || April 8 || Mets || 5–1 || Bruce Ruffin (1–0) || Sid Fernandez (0–1) || None || 21,921 || 2–1 |- style="background:#bfb" | 4 || April 9 || Mets || 9–3 || Don Carman (1–0) || Rick Aguilera (0–1) || None || 30,994 || 3–1 |- style="background:#fbb" | 5 || April 10 || Mets || 3–4 || Dwight Gooden (2–0) || Shane Rawley (0–2) || Randy Myers (2) || 51,781 || 3–2 |- style="background:#fbb" | 6 || April 11 || @ Pirates || 1–5 || Doug Drabek (1–0) || Kevin Gross (0–1) || None || 54,089 || 3–3 |- style="background:#fbb" | 7 || April 13 || @ Pirates || 0–7 || Brian Fisher (2–0) || Bruce Ruffin (1–1) || None || 9,825 || 3–4 |- style="background:#fbb" | 8 || April 14 || @ Pirates || 2–4 || Bob Walk (1–1) || Don Carman (1–1) || Jeff Robinson (3) || 6,222 || 3–5 |- style="background:#fbb" | 9 || April 15 || @ Expos || 4–6 || Andy McGaffigan (1–0) || Todd Frohwirth (0–1) || Tim Burke (1) || 11,292 || 3–6 |- style="background:#fbb" | 10 || April 16 || @ Expos || 1–2 (10) || Tim Burke (1–0) || Kent Tekulve (0–1) || None || 13,664 || 3–7 |- style="background:#fbb" | 11 || April 17 || @ Expos || 2–5 || Pascual Pérez (2–1) || Bill Dawley (0–1) || Andy McGaffigan (1) || 16,597 || 3–8 |- style="background:#bfb" | 12 || April 18 || @ Mets || 10–7 || Bruce Ruffin (2–1) || Rick Aguilera (0–2) || None || 14,931 || 4–8 |- style="background:#bfb" | 13 || April 19 || @ Mets || 10–2 || Don Carman (2–1) || Bob Ojeda (2–1) || None || 24,555 || 5–8 |- style="background:#fbb" | 14 || April 20 || @ Mets || 2–6 || Dwight Gooden (4–0) || Shane Rawley (0–3) || None || 27,714 || 5–9 |- style="background:#bfb" | 15 || April 22 || Expos || 2–0 || Kevin Gross (1–1) || Pascual Pérez (2–2) || None || 22,113 || 6–9 |- style="background:#fffdd0" | 16 || April 23 || Expos || 3–3 (7) || None || None || None || 23,394 || 6–9–1 |- style="background:#fbb" | 17 || April 24 || Expos ||