TAMPA, Fla. - Brandon Lowe swung and Hunter Brown craned his neck to follow the arc of the baseball. The bill of Brown's cap pointed almost straight up as he tracked it toward right field. Cam Smith planted his feet,

Yandy Díaz hit a three-run homer, among Tampa Bay's four home runs in the game, and the Rays beat the Houston Astros 8-4 on Wednesday to win their three-game series. Díaz's shot in the bottom of the eighth followed Josh Lowe and Brandon Lowe homering back-to-back in the fifth and Curtis Mead's first of the season in the fourth.