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Los Angeles Dodgers’ Mookie Betts looks at the Oracle Park scoreboard as the news of Vin Scully’s death is announced after Dodgers’ 9-5 win over San Francisco Giants.

San Francisco Giants’ Yermin Mercedes watches his pop up in 1st inning against Los Angeles Dodgers during MLB game at Oracle Park in San Francisco, Calif., on Tuesday, August 2, 2022.

San Francisco Giants’ Brandon Belt returns to dugout after striking out in 1st inning against Los Angeles Dodgers during MLB game at Oracle Park in San Francisco, Calif., on Tuesday, August 2, 2022.

San Francisco Giants’ Wilmer Flores singles during Giants’ 5-run 4th inning against Los Angeles Dodgers during MLB game at Oracle Park in San Francisco, Calif., on Tuesday, August 2, 2022.

The game went from meaning everything to meaning nothing. The two teams in baseball’s greatest rivalry were on the field with thousands of their respective fans lending full support, like any other time the San Francisco Giants and Los Angeles Dodgers are pitted against one another.

It was the fifth inning of Tuesday night’s game at Oracle Park when the competition and the score suddenly became secondary.

Vin Scully died at 94, and it was time for an industry and nation to mourn his death and celebrate his greatness.

The news of Scully’s death came from the Dodgers on their social media platforms. He was not just the face of their franchise but the face of this rivalry, which dates to 1889.

Los Angeles Dodgers' Vin Scully is applauded by San Francisco Giants' Willie Mays during Scully's final broadcast during MLB game at AT&T Park in San Francisco, Calif., on Sunday, October 2, 2016.

The game played on, but those aware of the news watched the final innings with heavy hearts knowing an American legend and hero, who broadcast Giants-Dodgers games with expertise and eloquence for 67 years of the 134-year rivalry, was gone.

The Giants spotted the Dodgers a 6-0 lead but rallied for five runs in the fourth inning. The Dodgers held on to win 9-5.

“No matter where you grew up — I grew up in Southern California — I think people here in the Bay Area and across the country can appreciate what Vin Scully meant to the game,” Giants manager and former Dodgers farm director Gabe Kapler said. “He was a pretty present voice in my childhood. Just as importantly, he made one of the most impactful broadcasting marks on the industry ever. We lost a great one.”

After the final out, the Giants posted a picture of Scully on the scoreboard as PA announcer Renel Brooks-Moon offered a powerful statement about his life and career — her closing words: “Rest in peace, sir. Thank you for all that you gave to this great game of baseball that we all love. You’ll be so deeply missed” — prompting fans in blue and orange alike to stand together and clap.

The broadcasters in the teams’ booths and the one occupied by TBS, which had the national broadcast, also paid tribute to Scully.

After all, this was the site of his final broadcast. On Oct. 2, 2016, Scully called the final out, Sergio Romo retiring Rob Segedin on a fly out to left field, clinching a playoff spot for the Giants.

Willie Mays visited Scully in the booth that day, and a plaque was unveiled that still hangs in the visitors’ booth acknowledging the final broadcast, and appreciative fans held up “THANK YOU VIN” cards.

“I was thinking sitting in the booth talking to Willie,” Scully said during the broadcast, “who would ever have thought that little red-headed kid with a tear in his pants, shirttail hanging out, playing stickball in the streets of New York with a tennis ball and a broom handle would wind up sitting here, 67 years of broadcasting, and with my arm around one of the greatest players I ever saw, the great Willie Mays? There are miracles, aren't there?”

After the final out, Scully had a quick postgame wrapup and said, “I have said enough for a lifetime. And for the last time, I wish you all a very pleasant good afternoon.”

Giants pitcher Alex Wood was a Dodger that year.

“It’s just a big loss for baseball. I was lucky to get to know Vin,” Wood said. “I don’t think there’s been anybody like him, and there probably won’t be anyone like him ever again. He was a poet. He had a way with words. ... I was lucky to spend some time with him and have him call my games.”

San Francisco Giants’ Joey Bart rounds the bases after his 2-run home run in 4th inning against Los Angeles Dodgers’ Tyler Anderson during MLB game at Oracle Park in San Francisco, Calif., on Tuesday, August 2, 2022.

Wood recalled a time the Dodgers took a team picture after which everyone held up a Scully mask attached to a stick, which turned out to be a pleasant surprise for Scully.

“Everyone was Vin Scully,” Wood said. “I got him to sign his face after we got done, and that’s probably one of the cooler moments I had with him and one of my coolest pieces of memorabilia.”

Scully embraced both sides of the rivalry. Before joining the Brooklyn Dodgers’ broadcast booth in 1950, a year before Mays’ debut, he was a fan of Mel Ott and the New York Giants.

When he was 8 years old, he began liking the Giants because he felt sorry for them after noticing they had gotten clobbered 18-4 by the New York Yankees in a World Series game on Oct. 2, 1936.

San Francisco Giants’ starting pitcher Alex Wood and Joey Bart during Los Angeles Dodgers’ 4-run 2nd inning during MLB game at Oracle Park in San Francisco, Calif., on Tuesday, August 2, 2022.

Eighty years to the day later, Scully made his last call in San Francisco. Six years later, he’s gone. But in this rivalry, in this game, he’ll always be remembered as the greatest broadcaster who ever lived.

Bart’s big hits: Joey Bart ’s two-run homer highlighted the Giants’ five-run rally, and he also put down a bunt single in the sixth as the Giants mounted a threat when trailing 6-5.

The bunt loaded the bases with no outs, but LaMonte Wade Jr. struck out, Dixon Machado popped out and Austin Slater struck out.

Before the game, backup catcher Curt Casali was sent to the Mariners in a trade that president of baseball operations Farhan Zaidi called a “vote of confidence in Joey,” assurance that Bart is the undisputed No. 1 catcher.

“It’s tough,” said Bart, who received the news of the Casali trade from catching coach Craig Albernaz. “I was caught off guard. He’s a guy who means a lot to this clubhouse, a good presence here, good player, really helped this team. I gave him a hug and told him I love him. It’s definitely a tough one for me personally.”

Bart has experienced a slight uptick offensively since returning from his time with Triple-A Sacramento, and the team considers him a front-line catcher who works well with the pitching staff.

The power is unquestioned, and now it’s a matter of getting more consistent. He has four homers in 17 games after hitting four in his first 76 games. Saturday’s had a 114.3-mph exit velocity, the hardest-hit homer by a Giant since 2015, when Statcast became a thing.

As for the single, Bart said it’s the first time he remembers squaring to bunt in pro ball. The request came from Kapler.

“I’ve never bunted. I don’t know how to bunt. I got pretty lucky, to be honest with you,” Bart said. “It worked out. I think I bunted one time in college and popped it up. That was a waste.”

Lefty issues: A couple of Giants lefties were charged with seven runs. Wood gave up six on nine hits in 5 ⅓ innings, though the defense was anything but stellar on his watch, and new reliever Alex Young surrendered the final run in the eighth.

Young, who was recalled from Sacramento before the game to fill the roster spot of Darin Ruf, who was traded to the Mets, entered in a 7-5 game with one runner aboard. He immediately yielded an RBI triple to Cody Bellinger and RBI double to Mookie Betts.

Betts had three hits including a homer off Wood.

The Giants dealt Ruf and Casali but not Carlos Rodón or Joc Pederson, a relief to Wood.

“Happy to keep ‘Los and Joc. A couple of other guys got traded away who were big pieces of our team last year and this year,” Wood said. “That part was tough. Obviously, we’re glad they didn’t trade everybody, especially keeping Joc and ‘Los. Those are two big pieces for our team down the stretch. It was a boost, for sure.”

John Shea is The San Francisco Chronicle’s national baseball writer. Email: jshea@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @JohnSheaHey

John Shea is The San Francisco Chronicle's national baseball writer and columnist. He has been covering baseball for four decades, including 36 years in the Bay Area. He wrote five baseball books, including the New York Times bestseller with Willie Mays "24: Life Stories and Lessons from the Say Hey Kid" and Rickey Henderson's autobiography ("Off Base: Confessions of a Thief"). His latest book was published in June 2022: "Long Schott: Building Homes, Dreams and Baseball Teams."