Has an AFL game ever ended 61-58?
It has. 61-58 has been a AFL final 6 times in 17,053 games. The first was Sydney beat Carlton on July 15, 1905; the latest was Gold Coast beat Fremantle on March 31, 2019.
That makes 61-58 the 374th most common final score out of 6,649 that have ever occurred in AFL. One point away, 62-58 has happened 3 times and 61-59 has happened 4 times. At one point the score disappeared for 41 years, between 1948 and 1989.