MILWAUKEE -- A power outage at problem-plagued Miller Park forced Friday night's game between the Kansas City Royals and Milwaukee Brewers to be suspended after a scoreless first inning.

The game was delayed for 1 hour, 45 minutes before it was suspended. It will be resumed in the second inning at 12:05 p.m. Saturday, then the Royals and Brewers will play their regularly scheduled game at 6:05 p.m.

Team officials said the problem was caused by a faulty fitting in a duct that helped distribute power through a section of the park. As a result, the lights down the third-base line were darkened.

There was still quite a bit of daylight when the game was suspended at 7:20 p.m., but umpires chose to stop play rather than begin a new inning.

"Whenever you have uneven lighting, that's not any kind of condition to play a game in," said Scott Jenkins, the Brewers' vice president of stadium operations.

By the time Jenkins explained the problem, the clubhouses had cleared out.

The power outage was mostly confined to the third-base side of the stadium, and Jenkins said he was unable to explain why the scoreboard and video board lost power. The park's retractable roof also lost power and couldn't have been closed if it had rained.

Jenkins was confident that the problem had been isolated and would be fixed in time for Saturday's games.

The team was expecting a crowd of about 40,000 Friday, and the Brewers honored those ticket stubs for the first game Saturday in the same seat, or would exchange them for a ticket to any other regular-season game.

The power problem was the latest trouble at Miller Park, which opened this year.

A crane collapse that killed three ironworkers on July 14, 1999, delayed the opening for one season.

This year, the stadium had leaks in its retractable roof and the infield has already been re-sodded. Still, the Brewers reached 1 million in home attendance in 31 games, the fastest in franchise history.

Less than 10 minutes before Friday's first pitch, the bank of lights down the third-base line went dark, along with the scoreboard and video board in center field.

Because the weather allowed the park's roof to remain open, the game started on time in daylight, and one inning was played before the game was halted.