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The Frontier League team had to bump Wednesday and Thursday night games into a Thursday daytime doubleheader.

After a major power breakdown at Ottawa Stadium forced the Frontier League's Ottawa Titans to reschedule action on Wednesday and Thursday, the City of Ottawa says the issue has been resolved.

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Due to on-going power outages, the Titans were forced to postpone Wednesday night's game against the Sussex County Miners. With the problem still unresolved Thursday morning, the Titans re-scheduled both that contest and the originally scheduled Thursday night game against Sussex County into a morning/afternoon doubleheader.

With few fans in the seats, it served as a major financial curveball for the Titans, a team that needs to average close to 2,000 fans per game to meet expenses.

"This is not a Titans problem," general manager Martin Boyce said Thursday morning, only moments before the first pitch of the doubleheader. "We inherited a building that needed a lot of work. We would encourage our fans to express their concerns to the city about the state of the facility."

The Titans successfully opened their season with a home game at Ottawa Stadium, which is also known as Raymond Chabot Grant Thornton Park, on May 12, which was followed by afternoon games on May 13 and May 14. When the team returned from its first road trip of the season, however, a lack of power became an issue.

On Tuesday, the club played a previously scheduled day game — there were issues with bathroom lights going on and off and at concession stands — but there was enough lighting to safely play a game.

"We’re not going to put fans at risk," Boyce said. "It puts us in a difficult position, with very few fans and very little staff."

Late Thursday afternoon, city staff said full power had been restored to the stadium.

"The city can confirm that the power issue at Ottawa baseball stadium has been resolved following urgent repairs by contractors," Dan Chenier, the city's general manager of recreation, culture and facility services, said in a statement. "During routine maintenance of the stadium's hydro infrastructure, it was determined that a breaker required immediate replacement."

The ground fault problems were due to a faulty current transformer.

"City staff and contractors remain on site to monitor the system," the statement added.

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