Detroit Tigers left-hander Tarik Skubal was scratched from his scheduled start ⁠against the Boston Red Sox on Monday and it could be months before he's back in the rotation.

Skubal is expected to need 2 to 3 months to recover from arthroscopic surgery to remove loose ​bodies in his pitching elbow.

News of the procedure comes five days after Skubal called ⁠a trainer to the mound in the latter stages of an ⁠outing against the Atlanta Braves.

Skubal threw a 96-mph fastball to the Braves' Matt Olson in the ​seventh inning Wednesday, then motioned ⁠for catcher Dillon Dingler while rubbing his left forearm near his elbow. Skubal remained ⁠in the game ​and finished his outing with three consecutive ​strikeouts.

"I don't really know how to explain it, ​I just ‌needed a little bit of time," Skubal said after the outing. "...…