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Consecutiv­e title defenses for Gennady Golovkin after his secondroun­d knockout of Vanes Martirosya­n on Saturday in Carson, Calif. Golovkin (38-0-1, 34 KOs) tied Bernard Hopkins’ record for middleweig­ht title defenses. He next faces Canelo Alvarez in the fall in a fight that was postponed because of a six-month suspension for Alvarez after he flunked a drug test.

3,000

Hits for the Angels’ Albert Pujols, a 13th-round draft pick who became one of 32 players to reach that milestone with a single Friday. And now besides Pujols, 38, only Hank Aaron, Willie Mays and Alex Rodriguez have the double of 600 home runs and 3,000 hits.

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