ARLINGTON - The phone hadn’t rung in the Rangers dugout before.

On Friday, it did.

Bobby Jones and Adam Brenner, the team’s replay coordinating crew, had spotted something and weren’t about to wait for manager Jeff Banister to initiate a phone call on a play that looked so routine and ordinary that it might not come.

In the sixth inning of the Rangers’ eventual 4-2 win over Los Angeles, Brenner spotted Albert Pujols lifting his leg ever so slightly off second base as he reset his feet after a throw behind him. The play seemed over. But Rougned Odor had kept a tag applied.

“Got him,” Brenner told Jones.

And so Jones called bench coach Steve Buechele, relayed the message, and started the chain of events that helped bail Colby Lewis out of an emerging jam in a game he trailed by a run at the time. Instead of having two on and nobody out, Lewis had a runner on first and one out, a far more manageable situation.

It was made even more manageable when the Rangers scored three runs after there were two outs in the bottom of the inning to take the lead. The two-out run has been the theme of the Rangers’ offense during their three-game win streak. They’ve scored 17 runs, 15 after there were two outs.

The turn of events was changed by those on the field, but it was the work of Jones, a 50-year field veteran, and Brenner, the technologically-savvy 30-year old that started the chain of events. After a dismal year on replay challenges last year, the Rangers moved Jones into the booth and paired him with Brenner. The idea was to pair experienced baseball eyes and agile fingers.

The call, which took only 1:28 to review, was the fourth time the Rangers have won a challenge in 10 attempts this season.

“I think it’s embarrassing [use of replay].” Pujols said. “That’s not baseball. It’s one thing if I pop up and my foot is way in the air. He was looking down waiting for me to switch my feet.”

"We've challenged [the replay guys] to stick with all plays, looking at all of them, no matter how small or how not close they may seem," Banister said. "We've been the other side of a number of those. They did a great job tonight. They called down and gave us enough time and let us know they had a really good shot at Pujols being off the bag. It was a big play in the game."

Another challenge Banister issued this year: He pleaded with his infielders to eschew the sweep tag and to keep all tags applied until an umpire calls time out.

Odor has gotten a couple of outs by holding tags on slight over-slides of second already this year. This play, however, was far more routine. He just never gave up on it.

“That’s part of the process,” Banister said. “We’ve been on the other side, more than you would like. It’s something that they’ve worked on. It was not something they were used to.”

Said Odor: “Now, the camera sees everything. I just want to stay with the runner all the way.”

Typically, the process works in this manner: Buechele calls the replay room after a close play and asks for what the duo have seen. They respond with a 1-5 ranking. One means they have virtually no shot at winning the challenge; five meaning it’s a certainty.

On Friday, when the replay guys turned the process on its head, the designation was off the charts entirely.

“Adam just nailed it,” Jones said. “We just called and said ‘he’s out’.”

He was.