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Jul 11, 2008 9:04 am US/Eastern
Jon Lester Off The Marriage Market
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Red Sox pitcher Jon Lester is introduced during a break in Game Two of the 2008 NBA Finals.
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Red Sox pitcher
Jon Lester is officially off the market. That's right ladies. The 24-year-old ace from Tacoma, Washington is engaged.
WBZ's Dan Roche got the scoop at Thursday night's Becket Bowl fundraiser.
Lester took girlfriend Farrah Johnson out on the town Wednesday night and popped the question, "as far away from Fenway as possible," Lester told Roche.
"We went out to dinner and went down by the water a little bit and walked around and did it down there.
"She said yes, which is a good thing."
It has been quite an exciting couple months for Lester. On May 19 the lefty threw his first
major league no-hitter against the Kansas City Royals, becoming just the 17th pitcher in Red Sox history to complete the feat.
Lester and Johnson met at the beginning of the 2007 season, while he was making rehab starts in Greenville, South Carolina. Lester was in S.C. to begin his remarkable comeback from his 2006 cancer diagnosis.
In August 2006 Jon Lester was diagnosed with anaplastic large cell lymphoma. Six months and six rounds of chemotherapy later he was declared cancer-free, and returned to the majors in July 2007.
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