The PSAC Home Run Derby ... uhh, I mean, tournament — was fun stuff last week at Kelly Automotive Park.

Sort of.

The caliber of baseball players on the field, game after game, was something to behold. It really did reflect the quality of ballplayers who are in this conference.

What it didn’t reflect very well was baseball.

There were 44 home runs hit in 14 games played there over a three-day period. That’s a little more than three per game.

Remember, we’re talking about the former Pullman Park here. That place isn’t exactly known for yielding round-trippers.

There have been summers of baseball go by without three balls clearing the fences there. The Butler BlueSox hit seven home runs all of last season — a 60-game schedule that included 30 home games.

Are the hitters in the PSAC that good?

Of course not.

Welcome to the era of the low-seam baseball.

The major leagues use such a baseball, but, of course, they use wooden bats, too. So do the BlueSox and the Prospect League, by the way.

The NCAA uses a duller version of aluminum bats, but aluminum bats nonetheless.

The combination of those bats hitting this ball is producing crazy results that not a whole lot of people like, including the players themselves.

Slippery Rock University hit 12 home runs as a team in 2014, when the NCAA was still using the raised-seam baseballs. This year, The Rock belted 65 homers.

Freshman catcher Tyler Walters hit 13, beating last year’s team total by himself.

That shouldn’t happen.

Butler graduate Cody Herald, the senior right fielder for Seton Hill, said he saw balls go off the end of the bat of opposing hitters during the PSAC Tournament.

“I’d instinctively start charging in, then wind up backing up and watching the ball go over the fence,” Herald said. “That’s a little ridiculous.”

Slippery Rock coach Jeff Messer admitted watching one of his own hitters, Preston Falascino, get fooled by a changeup and hit it out the park.

“He took an off-balanced, almost one-handed swing and hit a fly ball to right,” Messer said. “It just kept on going.”

Seton Hill’s Nick Sell — a former BlueSox player — has hit 28 homers and collected 92 RBI in 53 games this year.

The guy’s good, but he’s not Babe Ruth.

The PSAC Tournament lacked bunting, playing for a run, “small ball,” so to speak. Every team seemed to wait around for the next big home run.

That’s not baseball.

Here’s something for the NCAA to consider. Keep the low seams, but switch to wooden bats.

If you’re worried about the additonal cost of replacing wooden bats — which do indeed break — then keep your aluminum and go back to the raised seams.

Make some kind of adjustment — save the Home Run Derby for the all-star game.

John Enrietto is sports editor of the Butler Eagle