Watching the Angels win last night, 1-0, at Yankee Stadium, got me wondering as to which team has won the most 1-0 road games in a season.    To find the answer, in terms of "Since 1956," I set Baseball-Reference.com's Play Index Team Batting Game Finder to "Team Won, On the Road, (requiring R=1), sorted by greatest number of games matching selected criteria in a game" and this is what I found:

 Tm  Year Games Link to Individual Games
+---+----+-----+-------------------------+
 NYM 1968     5 Ind. Games
 LAD 1984     5 Ind. Games
 CIN 1963     5 Ind. Games
 TOR 1991     4 Ind. Games
 STL 1968     4 Ind. Games
 STL 1996     4 Ind. Games
 SDP 1985     4 Ind. Games
 PHI 1971     4 Ind. Games
 NYM 1969     4 Ind. Games
 NYM 1965     4 Ind. Games
 NYM 1985     4 Ind. Games
 MIN 1966     4 Ind. Games
 MIL 1971     4 Ind. Games
 CLE 1989     4 Ind. Games
 ATL 1993     4 Ind. Games

It's an interesting list.  Note the Mets teams of 1968 and 1969 here.  Thanks to Baseball-Reference.com's Play Index Team Batting Game Finder, we can also look at those nine wins for those Metsies.  Just set the controls for "From 1968 to 1969, Playing for NYM, Team Won, On the Road, (requiring R=1), sorted by most recent date in a game" and here are the results:

  Cnt Date          Tm   Opp GmReslt  PA  AB  R  H 2B 3B HR RBI BB IBB SO HBP SH SF ROE GDP SB CS LOB Batrs
+----+-------------+---+----+-------+---+---+--+--+--+--+--+---+--+---+--+---+--+--+---+---+--+--+---+-----+
    1 1969-09-27 NYM @PHI W  1-0   39  35  1  8  0  1  0   1  4   0  7   0  0  0   0   0  0  0  11    10
    2 1969-09-12 NYM @PIT W  1-0   36  32  1  6  0  0  0   1  3   0 10   1  0  0   1   1  0  0   8     9
    3 1969-09-12 NYM @PIT W  1-0   35  31  1  7  2  0  0   1  3   1 11   0  1  0   1   1  0  1   7    10
    4 1969-06-17 NYM @PHI W  1-0   35  28  1  5  0  0  0   1  5   0  5   0  2  0   0   0  1  0   7    11
    5 1968-09-11 NYM @CHC W  1-0   34  32  1  5  2  0  0   1  2   0  9   0  0  0   0   0  2  0   6    14
    6 1968-08-26 NYM @STL W  1-0   35  31  1  6  1  0  0   1  1   0  9   0  2  1   1   0  1  0   7    10
    7 1968-07-21 NYM @STL W  1-0   37  31  1  7  0  0  0   1  5   0  6   1  0  0   0   1  1  1   9    10
    8 1968-06-30 NYM @HOU W  1-0   32  31  1  5  0  0  0   1  1   0 11   0  0  0   0   0  0  1   4    10
    9 1968-06-10 NYM @LAD W  1-0   38  33  1  5  0  0  0   1  3   0 10   0  2  0   0   0  0  0   7     9
   
Games found: 9.

You expected to see Tom Seaver and Jerry Koosman winning some of these games for those Mets.  But, Jim McAndrew won two of them in 1968 as well.

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