A flip isn't the only thing you can do with your bat after crushing a baseball into orbit.

Chapman University's Nick Kondo demonstrated that after he smashed a three-run homer in the second inning of a 10-1 rout of Whittier at Hart Park in Orange, Calif., on Friday. He took the bat he had just used to extend his team's lead to 5-0 and mimicked looking through it as if it was a telescope because, well, you get the idea.

That's a novel way to watch your home run leave the ballpark. And Kondo wasn't done, adding two more hits -- a single and a double -- to finish 3-for-5 on the afternoon.

Hit a baseball so far that you need a "telescope" to see where it ends up? A 10-1 victory? Not a bad way to open your season.