Ducey Hits Two Homers, Leads Gulls’ 12-2 Win

Before arriving in Bakersfield on Monday, Ventura County Gulls center fielder Rob Ducey was seeing clearly the light of day and the baseball.

Under the lights at Sam Lynn Ball Park, few pitchers have caught him looking.

Ducey drove in five runs with a pair of singles and two home runs Wednesday night to lead the Gulls to a 12-2 victory over the Bakersfield Dodgers.

For the third straight night, the Gulls’ margin of victory was in double figures, and Ducey was at the center of the attack in all three games.

“I wouldn’t say the ball looks like a watermelon up there, but it looks good,” said Ducey, who is 7 for 14 in the three-game series with 11 runs batted in. He has lifted his average 118 points to .448 in the series.

The Gulls wasted little time jumping on Dodger starter Jay Ray as Ducey singled in Eric Yelding, and Darryl Landrum homered for the second time in the series giving Ventura County a 3-0 lead after one inning.

It became 5-0 in the third when Ducey singled, took third on a wild pitch and scored on Greg Myers’ single. Myers scored on Jay Hornacek’s fourth error in two nights.

With the Gulls leading, 5-2, in the fourth, Ducey hit a two-run shot to right. An inning later, Ken Kinnard greeted Dodger reliever Mike Fiala with a mammoth homer high on the screen in center.

Ducey clubbed his second homer and third in two nights with a man on in the sixth.