Brandon Lowe hit two home runs, right-hander Zack Littell pitched into the eighth inning and the visiting Tampa Bay Rays defeated the Toronto Blue Jays 8-3 on Thursday afternoon.

Littell (3-5) allowed three runs, eight hits and one walk with two strikeouts and induced three double-play grounders in 7 1/3 innings.

Brandon Lowe had four RBIs and three hits, Josh Lowe had a home run among three hits and Kameron Misner added a homer for the Rays in the rubber match of a three-game series.

Addison Barger, Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and Nathan Lukes had solo homers for Toronto.

The Rays struck early against right-hander Kevin Gausman (3-4). Josh Lowe, playing for the first time since March 28 because of an oblique strain, lined a single to left to lead off the game. Brandon Lowe lofted the next pitch, a fastball at the top of the strike zone, into the Rays' bullpen in right.

Tampa Bay added a run in the second. Jose Caballero singled and Taylor Walls placed a bunt single down the third-base line. After a double steal, Danny Jansen singled to left to score Caballero but Walls was thrown out at home by Lukes.

Barger homered to right-center on Littell's hanging splitter to make it 3-1 in the bottom of the second.

Gausman continued after Junior Caminero's 116-mph line drive hit him on the hip in the third inning. Gausman retrieved the ball on the first-base line and tagged Caminero.

The Blue Jays cut the lead to one with two outs in the third when Guerrero lined a hanging slider over the left field wall for his fifth home run of the year.

Misner homered to right-center on a hanging slider to lead off the Rays' fourth. Josh Lowe hammered a one-out homer to center on a fastball in the fifth to make it 5-2.

Tampa Bay added a run in the sixth on Caballero's double and Chandler Simpson's two-out single. Mason Fluharty replaced Gausman, who allowed six runs, 10 hits and no walks with six strikeouts in 5 2/3 innings.

Lukes homered with one out in the eighth. Bo Bichette followed with a double, his third hit. Manuel Rodriguez replaced Littell and got out of the inning for Tampa Bay.

Josh Lowe singled and Brandon Lowe homered in the ninth against Jose Urena.

--Field Level Media