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Did the kid have a beer at Phillies game?

Philadelphia sports fans continued to create a buzz Monday as video emerged on several websites that appears to show a small child drinking from a beer bottle while watching Sunday's Phillies-Padres game at Citizens Bank Park.

Philadelphia sports fans continued to create a buzz Monday as video emerged on several websites that appears to show a small child drinking from a beer bottle while watching Sunday's Phillies-Padres game at Citizens Bank Park.

Monday night, there was no way to identify the child, who seems to be three or four years old, or the adults nearby or the contents of the bottle.

The video was taken from the official broadcast of Sunday's game. TheFightins.com, Fox29, The Huffington Post, New York Post and Deadspin were among the websites that posted video.

Phillies spokeswoman Bonnie Clark could not be reached for comment Monday night.

Patrick Courtney, a spokesman for Major League Baseball, said he had seen a video clip of the incident, but he declined to comment about it.

Courtney did say that the league sought the removal of the clips from YouTube because it was "unauthorized use of in-game footage." He said it is done frequently with people posting video from game broadcasts.