Chris Sale does not shake off the catcher ever Heading into Monday night’s outing against the Minnesota Twins, Sale hadn’t shaken off once this year. Tyler Flowers, who was behind the plate for 8,726 of Sale’s pitches for the Chicago White Sox between 2010 and 2015, said that over that entire span, Sale shook him off exactly once, sometime around 2014. “I don’t want to disclose the reason,” said Flowers, now with the Atlanta Braves. “But there was one time, and it was for a specific reason.”