Giants settle for split

? San Francisco’s biggest night of offense this postseason wasn’t enough.

Four homers including another monstrous shot by Barry Bonds were wasted in the Giants’ 11-10 loss to the Anaheim Angels in Game 2 of the World Series on Sunday night.

Instead of returning to Pacific Bell Park with a 2-0 Series lead and momentum from a memorable comeback, the Giants will have to recover from a tough loss.

“It won’t be hard to regroup,” first baseman J.T. Snow said. “We’ve been doing that all year.”

Rediscovering their offense won’t be a problem.

Reggie Sanders, David Bell and Jeff Kent also homered for the Giants, who have gone deep seven times in the first two games.

But despite the impressive display of longball, San Francisco and Anaheim are tied after two games.

“You always want to split on the road,” Giants manager Dusty Baker said. “It would have been nice to go home 2-0, but the mind-set we take is we’re going home.

“We have three games at home. We play very well at home.”

The Giants looked like they were out of it after Russ Ortiz was hammered in a five-run first inning. It was most runs scored in the opening inning of a Series game in 23 years when Baltimore did it against Pittsburgh.

“That can happen,” Ortiz said. “You can have a bad start or a bad at-bat one day. It just happens.”

Instead of being content with a split after a 4-3 win in the opener, the Giants rallied right away.

Bonds started it with the first of his three walks to lead off the second. He went to third on J.T. Snow’s single and Sanders followed with his second homer in as many games.

When Bell followed with a homer just the 13th time players have gone back-to-back in World Series history the Giants were right back in the game and dancing in their dugout.

“We did everything we could to win that game,” Bell said. “We played well. We just didn’t win it.”

San Francisco wasn’t discouraged by Tim Salmon’s two-run homer in the bottom half. The Giants got a run back quickly in the third when Kent led off with his first homer of the postseason.

When San Francisco put together a four-run fifth to take a 9-7 lead it looked like the Giants were in control.

“It was a well-played game,” Sanders said. “When we drove in runs, they drove in runs. It was back and forth, back and forth. They just happened to come out on top.”