Eight Major League Baseball teams have never won a World Series: the Seattle Mariners, the Texas Rangers, the Tampa Bay Rays, the Milwaukee Brewers, the Houston Astros, the Washington Nationals, the Colorado Rockies and the San Diego Padres.
Two of the teams -- Seattle and Washington -- have yet to appear in a World Series.
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The Rangers/Senators, Nationals/Expos, and Mariners have never played in a World Series, so they obviously have not won any games. The Astros and Rockies played in only one World Series, and lost all 4 games, so they also have zero WS game wins.
There are eight teams that have never won a World Series title. Two have never made it to the World Series. The teams are as follows:
There are 8 teams in MLB which have never won a World Series:
San Diego Padres (est. 1969, 2 WS appearances)
Colorado Rockies (est. 1993, 1 WS appearance)
Houston Astros (est. 1962 as Houston Colt .45's, 1 WS appearance)
Milwaukee Brewers (est. 1969 as Seattle Pilots, 1 WS appearance)
Tampa Bay Rays (est. 1998 as Tampa Bay Devil Rays, 1 WS appearance)
Texas Rangers (est. 1961 as Washington Senators, 1 World Series appearance)
Seattle Mariners (est. 1977, 0 WS appearances)
Washington Nationals (est. 1969 as Montreal Expos, 0 WS appearances)
Out of the 16 original teams, every single one has won the World Series twice. The lat to win their first was the Phillies, doing so in 1980. The second to last was the Orioles, in 1966. The Phillies were also the last to win their second, in 2008.The second to last was the Minnesota Twins, doing so in 1987-- just seven years after the Phillies' first championship!
Anyhow, every team that hasn't won a World Series is an expansion team:
San Diego Padres (came up short in 1984 and 1998)
Texas Rangers (came up short in 2010 and 2011, and might do it again this year judging by their record)
Milwaukee Brewers (came up short in 1982)
Houston Astros (came up short in 2005)
Colorado Rockies (came up short in 2007)
Tampa Bay Rays (came up short in 2008)
Seattle Mariners (never won a pennant)
Montreal Expos (1969-2004; never won a pennant)
Washington Nationals (never been to the playoffs)
That would be the 1899 Cleveland Spiders who ended the regular season with 20 wins and 134 losses.