1973 New York Mets season
Having won only 82 games during the regular season , they , along with the 2005 San Diego Padres , qualified for the postseason with the fewest regular season wins since Major League Baseball expanded to a 162-game season in 1961 , and the fewest of any team since 1885 ( excluding the strike-shortened 1981 season and the 2020 season shortened by the COVID-19 pandemic ) . 
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