MINNEAPOLIS -- The New York Yankees reunion with Alfonso Soriano is likely over after the team designated the struggling outfielder for assignment on Sunday. Andre Hal Jersey . Soriano returned to New York midway through last season and sparked the offence with 17 home runs in 58 games. But Soriano hit just .221 this season with six homers and 23 RBIs in 67 games. The Yankees announced the move shortly after acquiring Arizona right-handed starter Brandon McCarthy for lefty Vidal Nuno. "We designated Soriano, which is extremely difficult because hes been a great Yankee and a great player," New York manager Joe Girardi said before Sundays game at Minnesota. Sorianos playing time decreased considerably this year after New York signed Jacoby Ellsbury and Carlos Beltran in the off-season. He recently has been splitting time in right field with Ichiro Suzuki since Beltran was injured and is now limited to designated hitter. But the slugger who started his major league career with the Yankees in 1999 and has 412 career homers has not connected since May 17 and has struck out 71 times in 226 at-bats. The 38-year-old Soriano is in the final year of an eight-year, $136 million deal he signed with the Chicago Cubs, who are paying $13 million of his $18 million salary this year. The Yankees have 10 days to trade or place Soriano on unconditional waivers. If he clears waivers, New York can release him. "For Soriano, its a guy that came in and did a tremendous job for us last year, has had his struggles this year and hes a guy thats used to playing every day," Girardi said. "Wasnt every day for him, maybe it was harder for him to get going, not sure. Im sure hes extremely disappointed. Soriano always takes things with class." The Yankees recalled pitcher Bruce Billings from Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre. Billings pitched in one game for New York this season, allowing four runs in four innings on April 25 against the Los Angeles Angels. Girardi has an open spot in the starting rotation after Nuno was traded to the Diamondbacks. Nuno was slated to start on Monday and McCarthy pitched on Thursday. New York wont force McCarthy into Nunos spot on short rest. Billings -- who has started 11 games in Triple-A -- wont be a candidate to start on Monday, Girardi said. An announcement will be made later. "The taxing of our bullpen kind of forced us to make this move, in a sense," Girardi said. "Im not saying it wouldnt have happened, but we decided we had to make it today because we need to." Houston Texans Jerseys . According to TSN Hockey Insider Darren Dreger, it doesnt appear the offer was warmly received by the team. 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Niese pitched seven steady innings on a rainy Tuesday night and Daniel Murphy had three hits to lead New York to a 6-1 victory over the Phillies.MILAN - Serie A leader Juventus won 3-1 at Napoli to move three points clear of Roma, which fought back from two goals down to draw 2-2 against Lazio in the capital derby earlier on Sunday.Miguel Britos levelled for Napoli, cancelling out a stunning Paul Pogba volley, but Juventus restored its advantage five minutes later through Martin Caceres, who was making his first appearance in more than three months.There was a suspicion of offside on that goal and Napoli was further infuriated after having a late equalizer ruled out for a foul on Juventus goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon before Arturo Vidal sealed the match in stoppage time.We are tired of this! Napoli President Aurelio De Laurentiis wrote on Twitter. Juve is a strong team, if it is then also helped by referees then it becomes unbeatable.It is unacceptable that with six officials they cannot see two players who are offside. Either its bad faith or incompetence. These six officials have to be frozen out for a long time.Juventus coach Massimiliano Allegri shrugged off the comments after steering the Bianconeri to a first win at the San Paolo since 2000.It makes me smile, if we start protesting at refereeing decisions then itll be chaos, he said. Mistakes happen and everyone makes them, from presidents to referees, its normal.Napoli remained fourth, a point behind Lazio after the latters derby disappointment.Francesco Totti scored both Romas goals in the second period. Romas talismanic captain celebrated his second in unusual fashion by taking a selfie of himself on the pitch.Sampdoria moved level on points with Napoli after beating Empoli 1-0. But Genoa slipped up in the race for third as it lost 3-1 at Inter Milan and is level with Fiorentina, which won a thrilling encounter with Palermo 4-3.Elsewhere, it was: Cagliari 2-1 Cesena; Atalanta 1-1 Chievo Verona 1; and Hellas Verona beat Parma 3-1.Juventus was hoping to avenge its Super Cup defeat at the hands of Napoli and took the lead just before the half hour mark. The ball come out to Pogba and the youngster fired a spectacular swiveling volley into the far corner.Napoli levelled in the 64th when Britos escaped the Juventus defence to volley in a corner from close range.However, Juventus restored its lead almost immediately when Caceres turned in Andrea Pirlos free kick on the half volley for his first goal since 2012. Julien Davenport Jersey. Napoli thought it had levelled again five minutes later when Buffon dropped a cross after colliding with Kalidou Koulibaly and Caceres bundled the ball into his own net but the referee awarded a foul, amid furious protests from the home team.With Napoli fighting hard for the equalizer, Juventus sealed the match on the counter attack when Alvaro Morata raced from the halfway line before picking out Vidal, who smashed it past the goalkeeper from 25 yards.Roma was looking to move top — for a few hours at least — after cutting the gap to Juventus to one point last week, but Lazio was also full of confidence after a decent run had seen it climb to third.However, Felipe Anderson set up Stefano Mauris opener before doubling Lazios lead before halftime. The young Brazilian has five goals and five assists in as many games.Rudi Garcia made two changes at halftime, bringing on Kevin Strootman and Adem Ljajic for Nainggolan and Alessandro Florenzi. That had an immediate effect as Totti reduced the deficit three minutes after the restart following a delightful ball from Strootman.Totti had the Stadio Olimpico on its feet with a magnificent equalizer, flying in at the back post to volley Jose Holebas cross into the far corner from the tightest of angles — before an equally memorable celebration.The race for the final Champions League spot promises to be a riveting battle and just six points separates Lazio in third and Palermo, which slipped to 10th.Sampdoria moved a point behind Lazio thanks to a magnificent curled goal from Eder shortly after halftime.Fiorentina was three points further back after a fantastic match which also saw Palermo come back from two goals down with a double from Robin Quaison.However, Fiorentina which had also hit the woodwork twice recover with goals from Juan Cuadrado and Joaquin.Earlier, Nemanja Vidic scored his first goal for Inter as Roberto Mancinis continued its impressive start to the year, following Tuesdays 1-1 draw against JuventusLukas Podolski made his full debut for Inter, while fellow new signing Xherdan Shaqiri was on the bench. 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