Langston, Ducey Fuel Angels, 3-1 : Baseball: Left-hander ends his three-game losing streak while new teammate gets two doubles against the White Sox.

Rob Ducey wasn’t supposed to be traded to the Angels when they acquired catcher Greg Myers from Toronto, but the Blue Jays threw him into the deal as a favor to the little-used outfielder. And Ducey wasn’t supposed to be in the Angels’ lineup Friday night, but he was thrown into his first home game when Von Hayes was sidelined because of a pulled rib-cage muscle.

Ducey didn’t look like a throw-in Friday. He doubled twice and scored two runs as the Angels beat the Chicago White Sox, 3-1, before 26,555 at Anaheim Stadium.

Ducey doubled against Jack McDowell (15-6) during the second inning and scored with the aid of a wild pitch and a passed ball, and he doubled again in the fourth and scored on a single by Gary DiSarcina. The defeat ended Chicago’s five-game winning streak.

Mark Langston (10-10) ended a personal three-game losing streak, going 7 2/3 innings. He walked three and struck out four, leaving after giving up a double to Tim Raines in the eighth. Joe Grahe finished, earning his 12th save in 13 opportunities.

White Sox center fielder Lance Johnson extended his major league-leading hitting streak to 21 games, but Chicago got only five hits against Langston. George Bell had a run-scoring single during the third inning for the White Sox.

Ducey hit a two-out double into the left-field corner during the second inning for his first hit as an Angel and second hit of the season.

Ducey took third when McDowell’s 1-and-2 pitch to Fitzgerald bounced away from catcher Carlton Fisk for a wild pitch, and he scored when Fisk was charged with a passed ball for not handling McDowell’s 2-and-2 pitch.

The White Sox matched that run during the third, also scoring with two out. Pitching carefully to Raines, who batted .450 in his previous 10 games, and to Frank Thomas, who is batting .444 over 17 games, Langston walked both.

That brought up Bell, who lined Langston’s first pitch into left. That scored Raines and moved Thomas to second, but Robin Ventura struck out to end the inning.

The Angels mounted a threat during the third, putting runners on second and third with two out. Luis Polonia led off the inning with a single to left and had a good enough jump on Luis Sojo’s grounder to second to keep the White Sox from turning a double play.

Junior Felix then walked. McDowell’s pickoff throw to second bounced into center field, Polonia going to third and Felix to second. They got no further, however, because McDowell struck out Gaetti on a pitch in the dirt and Chad Curtis flew out to right.

Given another chance to jump on McDowell in the fourth inning, the Angels didn’t waste it. Rene Gonzales led off the inning with a single to right, and he went to third when Ducey doubled to right. Mike Fitzgerald’s safety squeeze failed, but Gary DiSarcina lined a first-pitch single to center, scoring Gonzales and Ducey. DiSarcina made it to second on Johnson’s late throw home.

When Polonia drew a full-count walk and a grounder to short by Sojo popped out of Craig Grebeck’s hand for an error that loaded the bases, the Angels appeared to be on the verge of a big inning. But it never materialized, because Felix--the team’s RBI leader--grounded into a double play.

Left fielder Raines kept the Angels from padding their lead in the seventh, when he leaped above the top of the fence to catch Curtis’ high fly.