Surprise, Ariz. ? With Barry Bonds moving up to third in the San Francisco Giants’ lineup, Ray Durham has fit in well so far as the team’s new cleanup hitter.

Durham homered twice, Bonds hit his third home run of spring training and a Giants split squad lost, 7-6, to the Kansas City Royals on Thursday.

“I’m not a home run hitter,” said Durham, who has started only 11 games in his career in the fourth spot. “I hit the ball in the gaps. That’s me. Whether I hit three, four or five, I try to stay the same. I’m not trying to hit home runs, believe me. Those were line drives.”

Durham, coming off a career-high 26 home runs last season, connected in the second inning against Jorge De La Rosa and the fourth against David Riske.

Giants manager Bruce Bochy isn’t sure whether he’ll keep Bonds third and Durham fourth in the lineup when the season starts, but he likes what he sees so far.

“Ray’s an offensive force,” Bochy said. “That’s why he’s hitting cleanup in our lineup. He’s dangerous.”

The Giants lost despite hitting six solo homers. Bonds’ drive was the hardest hit of all – a line drive off Brandon Duckworth that cleared the right-field fence and hit the back wall of the bullpen in a flash.

Bonds has homered in both games he’s played with Barry Zito starting for the Giants. After his home run last Saturday against Texas, Bonds said he was done with long balls this spring and wanted to concentrate on getting base hits. He chided himself Thursday for violating that edict.

“Line drives man,” he said. “That was a little too far. I said line drives.”

Bonds struck out in the first inning and hit a hard lineout to first in the fourth in his first game ever in Surprise.

With the other half of the Giants playing a night game in Peoria against a Seattle Mariners split squad, nearly all of the starters made the trip for the day game. Pedro Feliz was the only projected opening day starter not in the lineup against the Royals.

Bonds made the nearly hour-long trip from Scottsdale, his first to the complex since it opened in 2003 as the spring home for the Royals and Texas Rangers.

Rich Aurilia, Todd Linden and Lance Niekro also homered for the Giants, who were 22nd in the majors in home runs last season.

“We can bang with some teams but we can play small ball, too,” Durham said. “We have the lineup to do it whether Barry is going to hit third or Barry is going to hit fourth.”

Zito allowed a two-run single to Mike Sweeney in a 35-pitch first inning before settling down to finish his outing with three scoreless inning. The left-hander allowed four hits and struck out five, getting third strikes on his curveball, changeup and fastball.

De La Rosa allowed two runs and three hits in four innings. He struck out three and walked none.

Royals prized prospect Alex Gordon had three hits, and Sweeney drove in three runs.

Notes: Aurilia started at third base for the Giants, his first action there this spring. The former shortstop is expected to play primarily at first base this season. … The Royals optioned LHP Neal Musser to Triple-A Omaha.