Has an AFL game ever ended 88-61?
Yes. AFL has seen a final score of 88-61 8 times. It first happened on June 23, 1928, when St Kilda beat Fitzroy, and most recently on August 27, 2020, when Richmond beat West Coast.
That makes 88-61 the 87th most common final score out of 6,607 that have ever occurred in AFL. One point away, 89-61 has happened 3 times and 88-62 has happened 4 times. At one point the score disappeared for 29 years, between 1970 and 1999.