Andrew Abbott proposes to Cincinnati anchor Lindsay Stone

Andrew Abbott made the engagement announcement in the most telling way possible for a public figure ring watch: one knee, one ring, and a photo that read as intimate before it read as celebratory. The Cincinnati Reds pitcher shared the news on Instagram, and the team quickly congratulated Abbott and Lindsay Stone on social media, turning a private milestone into a very public Cincinnati moment.

The ring itself was the hook. Abbott’s post did not lean on spectacle; it centered the proposal and the handoff from athlete to fiancé, a look that fits the current pull toward understated engagement jewelry over oversized, high-drama celebrity statements. In a town where Abbott has become one of the Reds’ most recognizable faces, the visual was less about blinding carat count than about restraint, timing and the kind of proposal that lets the diamond, and the gesture, do the talking.

That restraint also suits Abbott’s rise. The 26-year-old left-hander was a 2025 National League All-Star and came off that breakout season with a 2.87 ERA and 149 strikeouts in 29 starts. The attention around the engagement only deepened because Abbott entered 2026 as the Reds’ Opening Day starter for March 26 against the Boston Red Sox at Great American Ball Park, a role that put him at the center of the club’s season before the first pitch was thrown.

Stone brings her own Cincinnati visibility to the story. She joined WLWT News 5 on February 23, 2023, as an anchor and reporter, and the station says she co-anchors weekends with Courtis Fuller and reports during the week. Stone grew up in suburban Butler County and once interned with the Cincinnati Reds, a local connection that makes the couple feel stitched into the city’s sports and media fabric rather than assembled for headlines.

The pair had already shown up together in public before the proposal, walking the red carpet at the 2025 MLB All-Star Game in Atlanta and attending the Reds Hall of Fame induction gala in April 2026. Stone also announced in May 2026 that she was leaving WLWT after three years when her contract expired after May 24, 2026, closing one chapter just as her next one began. Abbott, born June 1, 1999, in Lynchburg, Virginia, and drafted by the Reds in the second round in 2021, now has a different kind of milestone attached to his name: not just an All-Star season, but a ring that signals the next phase of his off-field life.