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Gabe Kapler: MLB Says Pitchers Can Use Cheat Sheet After Joe West Incident

Major League Baseball has informed the Philadelphia Phillies and the Chicago Cubs that pitchers are in fact allowed to have a reference card on the mound with them, according to MLB.com's Carrie Muskat and Joe Bloss.

There was confusion during Saturday night's game at Citizens Bank Park as to whether it was permissible, when umpire Joe West made Phillies reliever Austin Davis surrender his cheat sheet:

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