The record on 12 August 1994, the last day baseball was played that year.
The team
The Expos had one of the smallest payrolls in the game and the best record in it. Felipe Alou managed them. Larry Walker, Moises Alou, Marquis Grissom and Cliff Floyd were in the batting order, Pedro Martinez and Ken Hill in the rotation, John Wetteland closing. Most of them were in their twenties.
Five of them were selected for the All-Star game that year.
The strike
The dispute was about a salary cap. The players walked out on 12 August. The season was not resumed, the play-offs were not played, and the World Series was cancelled for the first time since 1904.
Montreal were leading the division by six games with about seven weeks to go.
What happened to them
The strike ended in the spring of 1995. Over the winter and the following months the Expos sold or traded Walker, Grissom, Hill and Wetteland, because the payroll could not be sustained without the revenue the lost season would have brought.
Pedro Martinez stayed until 1997, won the Cy Young award, and was traded that winter.
Montreal
Attendances fell. Plans for a new downtown stadium came and went. Major League Baseball bought the franchise in 2002 and ran it for three seasons, part of which were played in Puerto Rico.
In 2005 the team moved to Washington and was renamed the Nationals. They won the World Series in 2019.
The Expos never reached one.