NOTABLE NUMBERS
20
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.