If it's true that contented cows give more milk, why shouldn't happy ball players produce more base hits??

If a batter reaches first base because of offensive interference by a preceding runner ( including if a preceding runner is hit by a batted ball ), he is also credited with a hit.

If the fielder bobbles the ball, the runner may still tag up, even before the fielder has full control of the ball ( before the fielder is credited with a putout ).

If the ball is dead on the pitch run on, such as from a foul ball ( except caught fly-out ), the steal is not allowed and the runner returns to his time-of-pitch base.

* If the third baseman fields a ball and throws it to first, it is recorded as a 5 – 3 out.

* Corollary If X is a Banach space, then X is reflexive if and only if X ′ is reflexive, which is the case if and only if its unit ball is compact in the weak topology.

If the ball has left the field along the sidelines, the referee must decide which team touched the ball last, and award a restart stroke to the opposing team, just like football's throw-in.

If the ball socket were too tight, the ink did not reach the paper.

If the ball has a rough surface, the fluid flowing past it will make it rotate.

If the player either hits the ball through the correct hoop (" runs " the hoop ), or hits another ball ( a " roquet "), the turn continues.

If a non-poison ball roquets a poison ball, the standard roqueting options apply, but if a poison ball travels through a wicket or hits a stake for any reason, it forfeits and is eliminated from the game.

If the hoop is the hoop in order for the striker ’ s ball, the striker earns a bonus stroke.

If a team fails to gain ten yards in two downs they usually punt the ball on third down or try to kick a field goal ( see below ), depending on their position on the field.

* If the defence scores on a safety ( bringing the ball down in the offence's own end zone ), they have the right to claim possession.

* If one team kicks the ball ; the other team has the right to recover the ball and attempt a return.

If a kicked ball goes out of bounds, or the kicking team scores a single or field goal as a result of the kick, the other team likewise gets possession.

* If the offence attempts a forward pass and it is intercepted by the defence ; the defence takes possession immediately ( and may try to advance the ball on the play ).

* If the offence fumbles ( a ball carrier drops the football, or has it dislodged by an opponent, or if the intended player fails to catch a lateral pass or a snap from centre, or a kick attempt is blocked by an opponent ), the ball may be recovered ( and advanced ) by either team.

If the circumstances are faced frankly it is not reasonable to expect this to be true.

If his dancers are sometimes made to look as if they might be creatures from Mars, this is consistent with his intention of placing them in the orbit of another world, a world in which they are freed of their pedestrian identities.

If a work is divided into several large segments, a last-minute drawing of random numbers may determine the order of the segments for any particular performance.

If they avoid the use of the pungent, outlawed four-letter word it is because it is taboo ; ;

If Wilhelm Reich is the Moses who has led them out of the Egypt of sexual slavery, Dylan Thomas is the poet who offers them the Dionysian dialectic of justification for their indulgence in liquor, marijuana, sex, and jazz.

If he is the child of nothingness, if he is the predestined victim of an age of atomic wars, then he will consult only his own organic needs and go beyond good and evil.

If it is an honest feeling, then why should she not yield to it??

If he thus achieves a lyrical, dreamlike, drugged intensity, he pays the price for his indulgence by producing work -- Allen Ginsberg's `` Howl '' is a striking example of this tendency -- that is disoriented, Dionysian but without depth and without Apollonian control.

If love reflects the nature of man, as Ortega Y Gasset believes, if the person in love betrays decisively what he is by his behavior in love, then the writers of the beat generation are creating a new literary genre.

If he is good, he may not be legal ; ;

If the man on the sidewalk is surprised at this question, it has served as an exclamation.

If the existent form is to be retained new factors that reinforce it must be introduced into the situation.

If we remove ourselves for a moment from our time and our infatuation with mental disease, isn't there something absurd about a hero in a novel who is defeated by his infantile neurosis??

If many of the characters in contemporary novels appear to be the bloodless relations of characters in a case history it is because the novelist is often forgetful today that those things that we call character manifest themselves in surface behavior, that the ego is still the executive agency of personality, and that all we know of personality must be discerned through the ego.

If he is a traditionalist, he is an eclectic traditionalist.

If our sincerity is granted, and it is granted, the discrepancy can only be explained by the fact that we have come to believe hearsay and legend about ourselves in preference to an understanding gained by earnest self-examination.

If to be innocent is to be helpless, then I had been -- as are we all -- helpless at the start.

If anyone thought of the John Harvey, it was to observe that she was straddled by a pair of ships heavily laden with high explosive and if they were hit the John Harvey would likely be blown up with her own ammo and whatever else it was that she carried.

If the church has followed the plan of cultivation of prospects and carried through a program of membership preparation as outlined earlier in this book, the process of assimilation and growth will be well under way.

If language be not in accordance with the truth of things, affairs cannot be carried on to success.

If the update is not carried through successfully — if, that is, the employee's address is updated on some records but not others — then the table is left in an inconsistent state.

If, as is most common, this flow is carried by electrons, they will be travelling in the opposite direction.

If a business can only be advantageously carried on by a large capital, this in most countries limits so narrowly the class of persons who can enter into the employment, that they are enabled to keep their rate of profit above the general level.

If the password is carried as electrical signals on unsecured physical wiring between the user access point and the central system controlling the password database, it is subject to snooping by wiretapping methods.

If it is carried as packetized data over the Internet, anyone able to watch the packets containing the logon information can snoop with a very low probability of detection.

If the accused appeared, the sentence was carried into execution at once ; if he did not appear, it was quickly made known to the whole body, and the Freischöffe who was the first to meet the condemned was bound to put him to death.

If a large number of strands are required the disks are duplicated, so that as many as sixty spools may be carried, the second set of strands being laid over the first.

; Factoring out of invariants: If an expression is carried out both when a condition is met and is not met, it can be written just once outside of the conditional statement.

The Duke of Wellington lamented: " If such projects can be carried into execution by a minister of the Crown with impunity, there is no doubt that the constitution of this House, and of this country, is at an end.

If it is running to the sea with sufficient volume, 1. 4 billion tons are carried to the sea annually.

If there is uncertainty about the diagnosis, a test of saliva or blood may be carried out ; a newer diagnostic confirmation, using real-time nested polymerase chain reaction ( PCR ) technology, has also been developed.

If B's rotation period is shorter than its orbital period, the bulges are carried forward of the axis oriented towards A in the direction of rotation, whereas if B's rotation period is longer the bulges lag behind instead.

If handled correctly early in their life, guinea pigs become amenable to being picked up and carried, and seldom bite or scratch.

If, therefore, a long series of tests were to be carried out, Head would come to Cambridge on the Friday, returning to London on Monday morning.

If a terrain is large enough, it may be divided into marked-off areas called pistes so that separate games may be carried on simultaneously on the same terrain.

She put them in a bowl and carried this to the men's lodge, and presented it to Igaluk, saying " If you enjoy me so much, then eat these ," and ran away out the door, grabbing a torch as she went.

If outdoor, it needs weatherproofing and must be able to be carried.

If a proposed activity would not affect the interest or is beneficial to it, then the conservation body will issue a " consent " allowing it to be carried out without further consultation.

If it would be harmful, consent cannot be issued, and the activity must not be carried out.

If Florida's 67 counties had carried out the hand recount of disputed ballots ordered by the Florida Supreme Court on December 8, applying the standards that election officials said they would have used, Bush would have emerged the victor by 493 votes.

If < math > N_1 N_2 < O_1 O_2 </ math >, the optimization should be carried out.