|- align="center" bgcolor="ffbbbb" |92||July 19||@ Giants||4 – 3 ||Garrelts (7-6)||Sanderson (4-5)|||| 35,865 ||49-43|| |- align="center" bgcolor="ffbbbb" |93||July 20||@ Padres||7 – 4 ||McCullers (6-6)||Tewksbury (0-1)||M. Davis (2)|| 15,113 ||49-44|| |- align="center" bgcolor="ffbbbb" |94||July 21||@ Padres||4 – 3 ||M. Davis (5-5)||Moyer (9-7)|||| 17,305 ||49-45|| |- align="center" bgcolor="bbffbb" |95||July 22||@ Padres||6 – 3 ||Sutcliffe (14-4)||Grant (2-5)|||| 18,614 ||50-45|| |- align="center" bgcolor="bbffbb" |96||July 24||@ Dodgers||6 – 4 ||Maddux (6-8)||Leary (1-6)||Smith (24)|| 38,052 ||51-45|| |- align="center" bgcolor="ffbbbb" |97||July 25||@ Dodgers||7 – 2 ||Howell (3-3)||Tewksbury (0-2)||Pena (2)|| 32,143 ||51-46|| |- align="center" bgcolor="ffbbbb" |98||July 26||@ Dodgers||7 – 6 ||Holton (3-1)||DiPino (1-2)||Young (8)|| 40,523 ||51-47|| |- align="center" bgcolor="bbffbb" |99||July 28|| Expos||8 – 3 ||Sutcliffe (15-4)||McGaffigan (2-2)||Smith (25)|| 35,299 ||52-47|| |- align="center" bgcolor="ffbbbb" |100||July 29|| Expos||11 – 3 ||Smith (7-4)||Maddux (6-9)|||| 37,019 ||52-48|| |- align="center" bgcolor="ffbbbb" |101||July 30|| Expos||6 – 1 ||Heaton (12-4)||Tewksbury (0-3)|||| 28,128 ||52-49|| |- align="center" bgcolor="ffbbbb" |102||July 31|| Phillies||8 – 5 ||Tekulve (5-3)||Sanderson (4-6)||Bedrosian (30)|| 32,930 ||52-50|| |- |- align="center" bgcolor="bbffbb" |103||August 1|| Phillies||5 – 3 ||Lancaster (3-1)||Hume (1-3)||Smith (26)|| 33,002 ||53-50||Dawson hits three home runs |- align="center" bgcolor="bbffbb" |104||August 2|| Phillies||3 – 2 10||Smith (3-6)||Calhoun (0-1)|||| 33,629 ||54-50|| |- align="center" bgcolor="ffbbbb" |105||August 3||@ Pirates||6 – 4 ||Drabek (3-10)||Maddux (6-10)||Gott (1)|| 7,281 ||54-51|| |- align="center" bgcolor="bbffbb" |106||August 4||@ Pirates||3 – 2 11||Mason (3-1)||Gideon (1-2)|||| 8,744 ||55-51|| |- align="center" bgcolor="ffbbbb" |107||August 5||@ Pirates||10 – 0 ||Fisher (7-6)||Moyer (9-8)|||| 7,726 ||55-52|| |- align="center" bgcolor="ffbbbb" |108||August 6||@ Mets||7 – 6 ||McDowell (7-3)||Smith (3-7)|||| 37,584 ||55-53|| |- align="center" bgcolor="ffbbbb" |109||August 7||@ Mets||7 – 1 ||Darling (8-7)||Sutcliffe (15-5)|||| 43,440 ||55-54|| |- align="center" bgcolor="bbffbb" |110||August 8||@ Mets||5 – 3 ||Mason (4-1)||Schulze (1-2)||Smith (27)|| 47,893 ||56-54|| |- align="center" bgcolor="bbffbb" |111||August 9||@ Mets||6 – 3 ||Sanderson (5-6)||Gooden (9-4)||Smith (28)|| 49,031 ||57-54|| |- align="center" bgcolor="ffbbbb" |112||August 10||@ Phillies||4 – 2 ||Frohwirth (1-0)||Moyer (9-9)||Bedrosian (31)|| 26,796 ||57-55|| |- align="center" bgcolor="ffbbbb" |113||August 11||@ Phillies||9 – 8 13||K. Gross (7-10)||Tewksbury (0-4)|||| 30,459 ||57-56|| |- align="center" bgcolor="ffbbbb" |114||August 12||@ Phillies||13 – 7 ||Calhoun (1-1)||Lynch (1-7)|||| 36,190 ||57-57|| |- align="center" bgcolor="bbffbb" |115||August 13|| Mets||7 – 5 ||DiPino (2-2)||McDowell (7-4)||Smith (29)|| 35,033 ||58-57|| |- align="center" bgcolor="bbffbb" |116||August 14|| Mets||6 – 1 ||Sanderson (6-6)||Mitchell (3-5)|||| 17,811 ||59-57|| |- align="center" bgcolor="bbffbb" |117||August 15|| Mets||7 – 3 ||Moyer (10-9)||Leach (10-1)||DiPino (2)|| 32,425 ||60-57|| |- align="center" bgcolor="ffbbbb" |118||August 16|| Mets||23 – 10 ||Darling (10-7)||Maddux (6-11)|||| 32,731 ||60-58||Billy Williams day ruined by football score |- align="center" bgcolor="ffbbbb" |119||August 18||@ Braves||9 – 5 ||Mahler (7-12)||Lynch (1-8)||Acker (8)|| 17,469 ||60-59|| |- align="center" bgcolor="bbffbb" |120||August 19||@ Braves||9 – 1