Giant Effort for Durham

SAN FRANCISCO — Barry Bonds hit his third homer in three days and Ray Durham hit two homers and drove in a career-high five runs in the San Francisco Giants’ 7-3 victory over the Oakland Athletics on Friday night.

Marquis Grissom also homered for the Giants, who scored at least six runs for starter Kirk Rueter (4-6) for the fourth time this season in his 17 starts.

Bonds, who went one for three with an intentional walk, hit his 22nd home run of the year and No. 680 of his career. He sent a 3-and-2 pitch from Mark Redman (6-5) over the wall in left-center for a solo shot leading off the fourth to put the Giants ahead, 4-3. Bonds has four homers in five days after a 12-game homerless drought.

Rueter won for the second time in four starts. He had two consecutive no-decisions coming in, including last Saturday’s 8-7, 10-inning loss to the A’s in Oakland. He gave up three runs and six hits in six innings, walked three and struck out one.

Jim Brower and Matt Herges combined for three innings of scoreless relief.

Oakland gave up four home runs a day after hitting a season-high five to complete a three-game sweep of the Angels. The A’s had won six of eight, with the two losses during that stretch coming to San Francisco last weekend.

Redman lost his second consecutive start to the Giants after a defeat last Sunday pitching on three days’ rest in place of the injured Tim Hudson. He gave up four runs and six hits in 4 2/3 innings.

On Friday, the left-hander was tagged for seven runs and six hits in six innings. He walked five and struck out one.

Grissom hit his 13th homer of the season in the first, a solo shot to left. Durham hit a two-run homer to left in the third for his fifth of the season, then connected for a three-run shot with two out in the sixth.

Oakland, which began a nine-game trip, has lost 13 of 17 away from home.