The Pittsburgh Pirates, with 20 losing seasons. They broke their own previous record of 19 consecutive losing seasons. :-(
The Pittsburgh Pirates have not had a winning season since 1992. That is 18 years and counting.
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Nolan Ryan (27 seasons)
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Washington baseball any league
Nolan Ryan, 27 seasons (1966 - 1993)
Major league baseball seasons consist of 162 games
The UPS guy asked me this and seems to think my beloved Cardinals is the team with only 2 consecutive losing seasons in the last 30 or 40 years but hopefully someone can confirm and explain. When you google it only seems to correlate losing with most. ---- The Cardinals had consecutive losing seasons in 1994 (53-61) and 1995 (62-81). Prior to that their last consecutive losing seasons came in 1958 and 1959. Since the 1960 season, the Cardinals are the only MLB team to have one set of consecutive losing seasons. The Los Angeles Dodgers have had two sets of consecutive losing seasons since 1960 (1967-1968 and 1986-1987).
It is usually 162, but there have been seasons with 163 or even 165 games.
Yes, a major league baseball team has been forced to forfeit a game when it is losing badly. There have also been teams that have been forced to forfeit due to a crowd that was too rowdy.