If the Orioles are to break their losing streak within the next two days, it will have to be at the expense of the American League champion New York Yankees, who come in here tomorrow for a night game and a single test Sunday afternoon.

If a player holds onto his stock, he runs the risk that the acquired chain may not reemerge before the game ends.

If that happens, then he will be holding worthless stock at the end of the game.

If a correct signature was located on the cartridge, the 7800 would operate in 7800 mode, granting the game access to MARIA and other features.

If the pitcher allows no runners to reach base, the no-hitter is a perfect game.

If the game has been scored correctly, the total number of plate appearances for a team should equal the total of that team's runs, men left on base, and men put out.

If the score reaches 20-all, then the game continues until one side gains a two point lead ( such as 24 – 22 ), up to a maximum of 30 points ( 30 – 29 is a winning score ).

If a player wins two sets, or gets a win and a tie, that player wins the game.

If the opponent drops the doubled stakes, he loses the game at the current value of the doubling cube.

If the Crawford rule is in effect, then another option is the Holland rule, which stipulates that after the Crawford game, a player cannot double until after at least two rolls have been played by each side.

If the score is still tied after extra time, the game will be replayed.

If both extra periods are played without a scored goal, a penalty shootout will settle the game.

If the player to move has no legal moves, the game is over ; it is either a checkmate — if the king is under attack — or a stalemate — if the king is not.

If there is a sense in which a card game can have an " official " set of rules, it is when that card game has an " official " governing body.

If a player breaks the rules of a game deliberately, this is cheating.

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 resurrection is not possible or not desired, the player may instead create a new PC to resume playing the game.

If a guest was considered a ' coward ' for dropping out of the game, he could be branded as a ' deserter ' and not invited back to further drinking bouts.

If the Dance Gauge is fully depleted during gameplay, the player fails the song, usually resulting in a game over.

If a match is drawn, there is a replay, usually at the ground of the team who were away for the first game.

If they fail to snap the ball in time they incur a delay of game penalty.

If a game has a board, the board is usually irregular rather than uniform or symmetric ( like Risk rather than chess or Scrabble ); the board is often random ( like Settlers of Catan ) or has random elements ( like Tikal ).

If the player uses the " god mode " cheat from Doom, the game will display a message saying " Trying to cheat, eh?

If the player tried to summon the Implementers, the game would suddenly produce a vision of Dave Lebling and Marc Blank at their computers, surprised at this " bug " in the game and working feverishly to fix it.

If you were a man '' --

If she, Pamela, were being held responsible for his crimes, then hers must be the final act of expiation.

If someone were to drop a match in here, this place would go up like a haystack ''.

If the other pilots were worried, they did not show it.

If it were the enemy, tactically his position was correct.

If it were not for an old professor who made me read the classics I would have been stymied on what to do, and now I understand why they are classics ; ;

If it were not that I knew who it was I could have mistaken it for my Aunt so well did her clothes fit him.

If an automobile were approaching him, he would know what was required of him, even though he might not be able to act quickly enough.

If there were only darkness, all would be clear.

If there were only the mess, all would be clear ; ;

If these people were denied a voice ( do they have a moral right to a voice??

If we were creating a wholly new society, we could insist that our social, political, economic and philosophic institutions foster rather than hamper man ; ;

If living Jews were unavailable for study, the Bible was at hand.

If his scholarship and formal musicianship were not all they might have been, Mercer demonstrated at an early age that he was gifted with a remarkable ear for rhythm and dialect.

If she were not at home, Mama would see to it that a fresh white rose was there.

If the Stearns were not there, grace would be omitted.

If anything, the conservative Democrats were more opposed to Hearst than the Republicans.

If the hardships of the winter at Valley Forge were trying for healthy men, they were, of course, much more so for those not in good health.

If his circumspection in regard to Philip's sensibilities went so far that he even refused to grant a dispensation for the marriage of Amadee's daughter, Agnes, to the son of the dauphin of Vienne -- a truly peacemaking move according to thirteenth-century ideas, for Savoy and Dauphine were as usual fighting on opposite sides -- for fear that he might seem to be favoring the anti-French coalition, he would certainly never take the far more drastic step of ordering the return of Gascony to Edward, even though, as he admitted to the English ambassadors, he had been advised that the original cession was invalid.

If there were no West Berlin problem, imperialist quarters would have invented an excuse for stepping up the armaments race to try to solve the internal and external problems besetting the United States and its NATO partners.

If the new Soviet series has followed the general pattern of previous Russian tests, the shots were roughly half fission and half fusion, meaning a fission yield of 30 to 40 megatons thus far.

If the Hessian troops sent here willy-nilly by the Hessian Government to fight for England in the 1770's were mercenaries, what shall we call the UN troops sent to the Congo willy-nilly by their governments to fight for the United Nations??

If the UN troops are not mercenaries then the Hessians were not mercenaries either.

If he were to go with White, he would be out there two days, not just listening in the dark at some point between here and Papa-san, but moving ever deeper into enemy land -- behind Papa-san -- itself.