The Mets going into today's game are, over their history of 45 full seasons, 23 wins and 22 losses in final games of the regular season. Certainly most of these games were pretty meaningless, but note that in the seven years in which they appeared in the post-season the Mets won their final game six times. 1969 was the only season they went on to the post-season after losing their last regular season game.
This season, the Mets can only go to the post-season if they win their final game. Because playoffs to decide ties in the standings count as regular season games, and they must must win either today's game or a tie-breaker game to move to the post-season, 2007 has become a season in which winning their last regular season game is the only route to continuing play.
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