SANTA CLARA — The game ended on fourth-and-10, with harried and hurried Atlanta quarterback Michael Penix Jr. throwing to no one in particular with second-year linebacker Tatum Bethune in his face on a blitz.
It was a fitting end to a 20-10 win by the 49ers at Levi’s Stadium Sunday night, an important win for a team with an improbable 5-2 record despite myriad injuries to key players.
Nick Bosa has been out since Sept. 14 with a torn ACL and will not return. A second gut punch arrived last week when Fred Warner went out with a broken and dislocated right ankle. He probably won’t be back either, even if the 49ers make it to the postseason.
Yet here were the 49ers, shutting down a Falcons team that piled up 443 yards including 210 yards rushing on a good Buffalo team the week before. It w