Bonds’ two homers help Ortiz end skid

PITTSBURGH —  For one night, it seemed like old times for the San Francisco Giants with Barry Bonds hitting multiple home runs and Russ Ortiz going deep into a game to win.

Bonds shook off an early-season slump and some chilly weather to hit his 736th and 737th home runs before being lifted in the fourth inning of an 8-5 Giants victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates on Friday night that ended Ortiz’s 12-game losing streak.

Bonds, batting .192 with one homer in 26 at-bats, hit a two-run shot down the right-field line in the second inning against Zach Duke and a deeper solo drive to right-center in the fourth against Shawn Chacon. The 42-year-old Bonds needs 19 homers to break Hank Aaron’s record.

With the Giants leading, 8-2, in the fourth, Bonds was lifted after his 70th career multi-homer game, two short of Babe Ruth’s record of 72.

Of Bonds’ 737 homers, 96 have been in Pittsburgh: 89 in Three Rivers Stadium and seven in 39 at-bats in PNC Park, which opened in 2001.

Ortiz’s losing streak lasted over 31 games and 16 starts, a stretch during which he gave up 75 earned runs in 86 2/3 innings.