Cameron Cauley was awoken at 6 a.m. on Sunday to the sound of the phone ringing in his Tacoma, Wash., hotel room. Not his cell phone. The actual hotel room phone. This was a first for Cauley as he answered the phone in his hotel room. And what followed was a conversation he’ll never forget. On the other end was Rangers director of player development Josh Bonifay, who informed Cauley that he needed to get to Cleveland for his Major League debut. After being called up to the Rangers’ taxi squad a week ago, Cauley was officially added to the active roster on Monday, batting seventh and playing second base in the 6-3 win over the Guardians. Cauley's triple helped set up Nicky Lopez’s go-ahead single in the seventh inning, becoming the fourth Rangers player to record a triple as their first big league hit in their debut and the first since Hanser Alberto on May 29, 2015. He finished the game 1-for-3 with two runs scored and a walk. While Cauley went 0-for-2 in his first two at-bats and committed an error in the fourth inning, he made up for it (and then some) with his triple. “Some young players might look at that a little bit differently and sit and hang their head," Rangers manager Skip Schumaker said, "but I’ll say that all 25 players on that bench and the coaches came up to him and told him he was good.” Less than three innings after his error, Cauley was a catalyst in the Rangers’ comeback against Cleveland’s strong pitching staff. “How can you not be romantic about baseball?” Schumaker said. After Cauley found out about his promotion, he called his wife, Madison, and his parents, Kelly and Chris, to tell them the news. But there was one problem: his parents were in church. After Chris didn’t pick up, he called Kelly, who was forced to answer the call after her ringer went off. “She got eyeballed by the preacher,” Chris said. Normally, Madison is right by Cauley’s side on the road, but she missed the Triple-A Round Rock Express’ road trip to Tacoma to go visit family in Mont Belvieu, Texas. When Cameron called, she was in the midst of the 197-mile trip back to Round Rock. “My first thought was, goodness, I need to get home,” Madison said with a laugh. The three of them landed in Cleveland around 11 a.m. on Monday -- in time for Cauley’s debut at Progressive Field. “It’s surreal,” Kelly said. “He’s put in a lot of hard work to have his dream come true.” While the promotion wasn’t a total surprise since Cauley, the Rangers' No. 13 prospect, had been pulled m
