Has an AFL game ever ended 58-52?
It has. 58-52 has been a AFL final 4 times in 16,622 games. The first was Fitzroy beat Sydney on May 17, 1902; the latest was Melbourne beat Essendon on June 2, 2012.
That makes 58-52 the 947th most common final score out of 6,607 that have ever occurred in AFL. One point away, 59-52 has happened never and 58-53 has happened 4 times. At one point the score disappeared for 56 years, between 1956 and 2012.