Giants lose a legend and a game

Photo by Nuccio DiNuzzo/Getty ImagesThe San Francisco Giants played a baseball game. It was the 74th game they’ve played this year, and they’ll play at least 88 more. They lost the game. It was the 38th game they’ve lost this year, and they’ll lose about 38 more, give or take. They lost 5-2 to the Chicago Cubs. It was the first time they’ve lost 5-2 or to the Cubs this year, but probably not the last for either.

It was just a baseball game. A simple, straightforward, standard baseball game, in which one team beat the other team, as happens many times every day of every season. An otherwise nondescript baseball game, interrupted after four innings with the news that the greatest Giant, the…