||Sanderson (7-6)||Puleo (5-6)|||| 10,523 ||61-59|| |- align="center" bgcolor="ffbbbb" |121||August 20||@ Braves||13 – 4 ||Acker (1-5)||Moyer (10-10)|||| 11,647 ||61-60|| |- align="center" bgcolor="bbffbb" |122||August 21|| Astros||7 – 5 ||DiPino (3-2)||Deshaies (10-5)||Smith (30)|| 31,006 ||62-60|| |- align="center" bgcolor="ffbbbb" |123||August 22|| Astros||5 – 4 11||Andersen (8-4)||DiPino (3-3)||Smith (21)|| 32,552 ||62-61|| |- align="center" bgcolor="ffbbbb" |124||August 23|| Astros||4 – 2 ||Heathcock (3-1)||Sutcliffe (15-6)||Smith (22)|| 33,934 ||62-62|| |- align="center" bgcolor="ffbbbb" |125||August 27|| Braves||5 – 2 ||Z. Smith (14-7)||Moyer (10-11)||||||62-63|| |- align="center" bgcolor="bbffbb" |126||August 27|| Braves||8 – 6 8||Lancaster (4-1)||Mahler (7-13)||DiPino (3)|| 19,006 ||63-63|| |- align="center" bgcolor="bbffbb" |127||August 28||@ Reds||6 – 5 10||Smith (4-7)||Franco (7-5)|||| 28,223 ||64-63|| |- align="center" bgcolor="ffbbbb" |128||August 29||@ Reds||4 – 1 ||Browning (6-11)||Sanderson (7-7)|||| 37,783 ||64-64|| |- align="center" bgcolor="bbffbb" |129||August 30||@ Reds||3 – 1 ||Lynch (2-8)||Rasmussen (0-1)||Smith (31)|| 33,485 ||65-64|| |- align="center" bgcolor="bbffbb" |130||August 31||@ Astros||4 – 3 ||Lancaster (5-1)||Darwin (8-9)||Smith (32)|| 17,734 ||66-64|| |- |- align="center" bgcolor="bbffbb" |131||September 1||@ Astros||3 – 2 ||Moyer (11-11)||Hernandez (0-1)||Smith (33)|| 14,026 ||67-64|| |- align="center" bgcolor="ffbbbb" |132||September 2||@ Astros||10 – 1 ||Scott (14-10)||Sutcliffe (15-7)|||| 17,406 ||67-65|| |- align="center" bgcolor="ffbbbb" |133||September 4|| Reds||4 – 3 ||Williams (4-0)||Smith (4-8)||Franco (26)|| 19,715 ||67-66|| |- align="center" bgcolor="ffbbbb" |134||September 5|| Reds||10 – 5 ||Rasmussen (1-1)||Lynch (2-9)|||| 33,336 ||67-67|| |- align="center" bgcolor="bbffbb" |135||September 6|| Reds||3 – 1 ||Lancaster (6-1)||Power (10-10)||Smith (34)|| 33,093 ||68-67|| |- align="center" bgcolor="ffbbbb" |136||September 7|| Pirates||3 – 2 ||Fisher (8-9)||Moyer (11-12)||J. Robinson (11)|| 21,745 ||68-68|| |- align="center" bgcolor="ffbbbb" |137||September 8|| Pirates||4 – 1 ||Palacios (1-0)||Sutcliffe (15-8)||Gott (8)|| 8,331 ||68-69|| |- align="center" bgcolor="ffbbbb" |138||September 9|| Pirates||4 – 3 ||J. Robinson (8-8)||Smith (4-9)||Gott (9)|| 8,054 ||68-70|| |- align="center" bgcolor="bbffbb" |139||September 11|| Expos||8 – 4 ||Lancaster (7-1)||Youmans (9-8)|||| 10,174 ||69-70|| |- align="center" bgcolor="ffbbbb" |140||September 12|| Expos||7 – 1 ||Perez (3-0)||Moyer (11-13)|||| 25,681 ||69-71|| |- align="center" bgcolor="bbffbb" |141||September 13|| Expos||5 – 2 ||Sutcliffe (16-8)||Smith (9-7)|||| 25,444 ||70-71|| |- align="center" bgcolor="ffbbbb" |142||September 14||@ Mets||6 – 5 ||Aguilera (9-2)||Hall (0-1)||Orosco (15)|| 27,693 ||70-72|| |- align="center" bgcolor="ffbbbb" |143||September 15||@ Mets||12 – 4 ||Fernandez (11-8)||Maddux (6-12)|||| 31,806 ||70-73|| |- align="center" bgcolor="ffbbbb" |144||September 16||@ Phillies||8 – 5 ||Maddux (2-0)||Smith (4-10)||Bedrosian (37)|| 17,598 ||70-74|| |- align="center" bgcolor="ffbbbb" |145||September 17||@ Phillies||4 – 3 ||Carman (11-10)||Moyer (11-14)||Bedrosian (38)|| 10,338 ||70-75|| |- align="center" bgcolor="bbffbb" |146||September 18||@ Cardinals||8 – 1 ||Sutcliffe (17-8)||Cox (9-8)|||| 44,189 ||71-75|| |- align="center" bgcolor="ffbbbb" |147||September 19||@ Cardinals||5 – 3 ||Magrane (8-7)||Sanderson (7-8)||Worrell (30)|| 48,387 ||71-76|| |- align="center" bgcolor="ffbbbb" |148||September 20||@ Cardinals||10 – 2 ||Forsch (11-5)||Maddux (6-13)|||| 44,894 ||71-77|| |- align="center" bgcolor="ffbbbb" |149||September 21|| Mets||7 – 1 ||Gooden (15-6)||Lancaster (7-2)|||| 8,229 ||71-78||