Has an AFL game ever ended 89-61?
It has. 89-61 has been a AFL final 3 times in 16,622 games. The first was Essendon beat Fitzroy on July 8, 1950; the latest was Adelaide beat Gold Coast on August 5, 2023.
That makes 89-61 the 1534th most common final score out of 6,607 that have ever occurred in AFL. One point away, 90-61 has happened 2 times and 89-62 has happened 4 times. At one point the score disappeared for 57 years, between 1950 and 2007.