MILWAUKEE — Walker Buehler will not return for the Dodgers this season.

The team announced Monday that the pitcher, who has been out since May with an elbow injury, will undergo season-ending surgery next week.

The procedure will be performed by Dr. Neal ElAttrache.

Buehler has been out since May, when he suffered what the team called a flexor tendon strain in his right elbow during a start against the San Francisco Giants.

Buehler was shut down for six weeks — he also had an unrelated bone spur removed from his elbow during that time — and then began a throwing program late last month.

He had been hoping to return in some capacity for the stretch run and postseason, targeting a late-September return that might have given him a chance to at least pitch out of the bullpen in October.

However, those hopes have now been dashed, dealing the Dodgers' pitching staff a major blow less than two months before the start of the playoffs.

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