Has an AFL game ever ended 98-58?
It has. 98-58 has been a AFL final 2 times in 17,053 games. The first was Geelong beat Footscray on July 5, 1930; the latest was Sydney beat Fremantle on July 25, 2021.
That makes 98-58 the 2496th most common final score out of 6,649 that have ever occurred in AFL. One point away, 99-58 has happened 4 times and 98-59 has happened 5 times. At one point the score disappeared for 91 years, between 1930 and 2021.