PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A video snippet from a Philadelphia Phillies broadcast appears to show a little boy in the stands taking a drink from a beer bottle, but the team thinks it was probably empty.
The fuzzy video making the rounds online shows the child putting the bottle to his lips at Sunday’s Phillies-Padres game at Citizens Bank Park. No one nearby appears to be paying attention to him when he does. It’s not clear whether the bottle has anything in it.
Phillies spokeswoman Bonnie Clark says the team hasn’t been able to identify the boy. She says it appears to be “a very brief event, probably involving an empty bottle.”
Police say they are not investigating.
Phillies fans have brought unfavorable publicity to the ballclub this year. In April, a drunken fan intentionally vomited on an 11-year-old girl. In May, a police officer used a Taser on a teenager who ran onto the field.
