This holiday season, Los Angeles Dodgers’ two-way sensation, Shohei Ohtani, can add some sporting charm to your Christmas tree.

Hallmark is introducing a special Keepsake Ornament featuring the four-time MVP, capturing Ohtani in a dynamic swing pose, proudly wearing a Dodgers uniform.

Fans eager to add a touch of baseball magic to their holiday decor can purchase the ornament starting this weekend at Hallmark Gold Crown stores across the nation, or conveniently online at Hallmark.com.

Available from July 11-19, the Ohtani ornament will debut alongside over 250 other delightful ornaments at Hallmark’s Keepsake Ornament Premiere.

Celebrating his 32nd birthday this weekend, Ohtani missed Saturday’s game against the San Diego Padres due to a biceps strain. The Dodgers’ powerhouse was withdrawn from Friday’s opener after experiencing tightness in his right biceps, affecting his ability both at bat and on the mound.

The right-hander tossed six innings of three-run ball, but was replaced by Miguel Rojas in the lineup in the seventh inning. Ohtani went 0-for-3 at the plate Friday with a groundout and two fly outs.

While the Dodgers missed Ohtani Saturday, LA secured a second consecutive win over San Diego. The back-to-back World Series champions won the weekend series against the Padres, extending their lead in the NL West to a whopping 14 games.

Ohtani is set to be the National League’s designated hitter in the 2026 All-Star Game in Philadelphia next Tuesday. A handful of other Dodgers will also feature in the starting lineup, including outfielder Andy Pages, third baseman Max Muncy and first baseman Freddie Freeman.

Ohtani won’t take the mound for the Midsummer Classic, but fans have the chance to watch Yoshinobu Yamamoto pitch for the NL team.

Kylian Mbappe has publicly condemned a Paraguayan senator, accusing her of “brazen racism” and calling her remarks “despicable” after she launched a scathing social media attack against him. This comes in the wake of Paraguay’s World Cup elimination.

The Real Madrid forward became the hero for France by netting a critical second-half penalty, securing a narrow 1-0 win over Paraguay in a tense match held in Philadelphia on Saturday. However, the game, part of the tournament’s round of 16, became overshadowed by the questionable tactics employed by the underdog team.

Facing off against the tournament’s favorites, Paraguay appeared to use all means necessary to disrupt their opponents. The team engaged in repeated fouls, feigned injuries, and played provocatively to unsettle Les Bleus with aggressive behavior.

The controversy surrounding Paraguay’s exit from the World Cup has escalated as Celeste Amarilla, a senator from the country, unleashed a vitriolic barrage directed at the French captain.

Following Mbappe’s refusal to shake hands with Paraguayan goalkeeper Orlando Gill, Amarilla criticized him harshly. She accused him of being a “brute” and claimed he “hasn’t even learned to write,” while also hurling racist comments at the football star.

‘You should’ve shown him the finger, Orlando Gill; I do it in the senate and nothing happens!!!’ 

She also wrote in a separate post, that Mbappe was ‘pretending hard to be French, resentful, newly rich, arrogant, and ugly. 

‘He was nervous and scared to death the whole match, like his entire team; they couldn’t even score a goal, they won by a fluke… 

‘The only thing many of us demanded of the Albirroja is not to have slapped him open-handed after the match ended. And that’s despite not being a soccer fan.’

Mbappe furiously responded to her astonishing tirade with his own statement on Monday, which read: ‘Madame Celeste Amarilla, You are a despicable woman and unworthy of your position. You do not represent Paraguay, that country which has sweated passion and honor throughout the competition. 

‘Through your recklessness and your brazen racism, the entire world has already forgotten the journey and the historic effort that your players accomplished during this World Cup, making way for an incompetent woman who gives the worst possible image of her country. 

‘I will never allow people like her the freedom to spread their hatred and racism across the world.’

French Football Federation president Philippe Diallo also threw his support behind Mbappe and posted: ‘The racist remarks by Paraguayan Senator Celeste Amarilla targeting Kylian Mbappe are criminal and reprehensible. 

‘They must be prosecuted here as elsewhere. The FFF is filing a report with the prosecutor’s office for the purpose of judicial proceedings.

‘I offer my full support to our captain, to the players, and more generally to all the victims of such odious remarks. The players of the French national team represent France; it is our country that is insulted.’

Paraguay’s dirty tactics included various incidents during the match, from scuffing up the penalty spot, elbowing Dayot Upamecano in the ribs, palming Jules Kounde‘s face, trying to get Michael Olise sent off with outrageous play-acting and somehow ending up without a single booking from Uzbekistani referee Ilgiz Tantashev. 

After the tempestuous match, BBC pundit Joe Hart branded Paraguay’s players ‘an absolute disgrace’, while French newspaper L’Equipe slapped Tantashev with a brutal 1/10 rating for failing to seize control of the occasion. 

In a tense flashpoint of the match, goalkeeper Gill was left furious after Mbappe refused to shake his hands while celebrating in front of the French fans.

Gill reacted furiously, throwing the ball at Mbappe’s back before he walked over to the centre circle, where another melee took place. 

Speaking after the match, Gill fumed: ‘Kylian Mbappe has p***ed me off. I stretched my hand to congratulate him, but he ignored me.

‘This is football, if they’re not used to this, what can we do? Paraguay is like that, it’s a tough team.

‘From the first moment we set out to make ourselves felt on the field, that if the ball gets through, the man doesn’t.’

Speaking about the controversial encounter, Mbappe hailed his side and said they are prepared to win via any method at this World Cup.    

‘We knew what kind of game we were going to have. We showed that we were not just a team that knows how to play offensive football,’ he said.

‘They thought we’d come wearing tuxedos, doing great plays, one-twos and whatnot. It’s their way of playing.’

In an unexpected turn of events, Ford has extended an invitation to a long-time electrician, previously misaccused of stealing a $1.95 cookie, to resume his job. However, the employee has declined the offer, citing the absence of a formal apology following the incident.

The unusual incident unfolded at Ford’s Kentucky Truck Plant located in Louisville, Kentucky. During the early morning hours of May 9, Kurt Kromm attempted to purchase two Grandma’s Chocolate Chip Cookies at an Aramark self-checkout kiosk, costing $1.95.

Kurt Kromm, who has dedicated 11 years to maintaining robots and automated equipment at the Louisville-based plant, revealed to The Post his experience at the kiosk. He initially swiped his debit card, but was met with a red notification, signaling a failed transaction.

Kromm, a 60-year-old diabetic who faced a blood sugar drop to 60 during his late-night shift, swiped his card again. This time, the machine neither confirmed with a green checkmark nor did it reject the payment, leaving him uncertain about the transaction’s status.

Assuming the purchase was successful, Kromm proceeded to return to his duties on the plant floor.

“I figured, well, it probably went through,” Kromm said. “And I might have went over to the other kiosk and paid. This was so inconsequential to me — $1.95. I figured I paid.”

A week later, on May 16, two supervisors summoned him to the labor office, where he was shown surveillance video and fired for allegedly stealing the cookie.

“The bargainer says, ‘This is bad,’” Kromm recalled.

“I said, ‘For what?’ They said, ‘They want to terminate you for taking a cookie.’ I was like, ‘What are you talking about?’”

Kromm told The Post that company officials showed him surveillance footage from an Aramark self-checkout kiosk that appeared to show a failed transaction after he swiped his debit card.

Ford immediately escorted him from the plant, refusing to let him retrieve his belongings, he said.

“They just terminated me, walked me out of the building,” Kromm recounted. “I had to get the union steward to even go get my personal laptop because they wouldn’t let me go get anything — ‘you are terminated, get out.’”

After being let go, Kromm went to work gathering evidence that he had indeed paid the $1.95 fare for the cookie.

Days later, he asked a former coworker to photograph the break-room kiosk showing the cookie’s actual price. He then checked his bank records again.

“The charge was there,” Kromm said. “It was on my credit card, the first charge of the day at 3:38 in the morning.”

He immediately emailed screenshots of the transaction to Ford labor executives and union officials.

According to Kromm, the company responded about 10 days later by demanding a notarized bank statement verifying the payment. Kromm supplied it, and weeks later, Ford informed him he would be reinstated with full back pay — roughly $33,000 — and invited him to return.

But by then, Kromm said, the damage had already been done. He refused.

“I emotionally couldn’t go back,” he said. “I worked with 8,500 people. I didn’t get to say goodbye to anybody. I’d been there 11 years.”

“There was no apology. There was no serious, ‘We’re sorry,’” Kromm told The Post. “There was just, ‘Oh, you’re not coming back?’ No, I am not interested in coming back.”

Instead, he said, the company lost an exemplary employee.

“I’m a pretty damn smart guy,” Kromm told The Post. “I fixed every piece of equipment you asked me to work on. And in the end, you did this to me.”

Despite receiving back pay and another chance to reclaim his old job, Kromm said his trust in the company is gone.

“I expected to work for Ford until I retired,” he said. “I loved working for Ford. I never thought it would end this way. It was a home away from home. This was tremendously difficult for me, but I couldn’t go back. I just couldn’t do it.”

The bizarre case was first reported by journalist Phoebe Wall Howard’s Substack newsletter Shifting Gears.

Ford, while declining to discuss Kromm’s individual case, previously acknowledged to Shifting Gears that “there are times when we look into things and realize it could have been handled differently. When that happens, we try to rectify it.”

Kromm also faulted both Ford and his union for failing to give him an opportunity to clear up what ultimately proved to be a simple payment error.

“Most companies would just ask you to pay for the cookie,” he said.

“I can’t come back to a company that just fired me like this and not give me any chance to show I paid,” Kromm told The Post. “It was just ridiculous. I can’t.”

A Ford spokesperson told The Post that the company’s “focus is on delivering top-quality vehicles.”

“We’re focused — especially as it relates to our manufacturing plants — on competing with the world’s best in quality,” the spokesperson said.

The Post has sought comment from United Auto Workers.

Kromm said he believes Aramark, which operates the self-checkout kiosks inside the plant, bears responsibility because it allegedly forwarded surveillance footage to Ford without confirming whether payment had ultimately been processed.

“They lied about me,” he said of Aramark, whom he accuses of being the first to raise the theft allegation.

“All they had to do was look for a transaction at that time, and they would’ve saw I bought a cookie.”

Aramark is the $15 billion Philadelphia-based food services giant that manages cafeterias and dining halls at businesses, sports stadiums, hospitals and colleges worldwide.

“We fully cooperate with investigations of this nature,” an Aramark spokesperson told The Post.

“At the same time, we remain focused on providing convenient, flexible snack options that support our hardworking customers every day.”