Has an AFL game ever ended 58-42?
Yes. AFL has seen a final score of 58-42 3 times. It first happened on July 27, 1918, when Essendon beat Fitzroy, and most recently on October 1, 2020, when Port Adelaide beat Geelong.
That makes 58-42 the 1599th most common final score out of 6,649 that have ever occurred in AFL. One point away, 59-42 has happened 2 times and 58-43 has happened 3 times. At one point the score disappeared for 56 years, between 1964 and 2020.