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The Oakland Athletics were supposed to take the field against the visiting Minnesota Twins for the third game of their series -- with potential playoff implications on the line -- Saturday around 1:05 p.m. local time, but this is what the visitors dugout at the O.Co Coliseum looks like.

Visitor dugout in Oakland. Probably 4" of standing water/potential sewage. pic.twitter.com/kAZGQx0cfr — Glen Perkins (@glen_perkins) September 21, 2013

That picture of comes via Twins pitcher Glen Perkins, who seems excited to potentially hang out in there once the game finally starts, if it does at all.

The pipes inside the the stadium backed up on Saturday following some unusually heavy rain. "It’s flowing like lava," Oakland catcher Kurt Suzuki told the San Francisco Chronicle's Susan Slusser. "It was like a sewage volcano,'' Oakland reliever Ryan Cook told the San Jose Mercury News' John Hickey, echoing his teammate. "The sound it makes is amazing," Suzuki said.

The Coliseum is 22 feet below sea level and occasionally floods after heavy rain.thanks to some poorly designed pipe placement -- "the drainoff pipes and the coaches’ room pipes cross," an Oakland employee told Slater. The Athletics said an inch of heavy rain fell within a single hour at one point Saturday, which is unusual. If you need a visual aide explaining the whether situation today, Oakland pitcher Brett Anderson has you covered.