The Bisons right-hander won his fourth straight start in scintillating fashion Sunday, carrying a no-hitter into the seventh inning and finishing with a two-hitter as Buffalo blanked the Indianapolis Indians, 1-0, at Dunn Tire Park.

Drew (4-3) went 4-1 in May with a 1.74 earned run average. It was quite a difference from the season's opening month, when he was 0-2, 7.71 in four starts.

"He's comfortable on the mound again and that's a big place to start," said pitching coach Carl Willis. "It sounds simple but if you ask a lot of guys in Triple-A, if not the major leagues, your confidence stems from being comfortable on the mound and letting your ability take over."

Drew struck out three, walked just one and recorded 12 groundball outs Sunday as 7,996 saw the Herd earn a split of the four-game series. Drew outdueled Indy lefty Andrew Lorraine (3-5), who tossed a five-hitter but gave up Anthony Medrano's two-out RBI single in the fifth.

Drew, 23, retired 15 straight batters until ex-Bison Ryan Thompson broke up the no-hitter with a broken-bat single to center leading off the seventh.

"I had thrown a couple no-hitters in high school," Drew said. "But at this level, the competition is tough. He (Thompson) is a good hitter and he did his job. He hung in there and broke it up but that's all right."

In the ninth, Jon Zuber pulled a clean single to right with one out. Next up were Thompson and Izzy Alcantara, who have already combined for 24 homers and 61 RBIs this season.

Manager Eric Wedge quickly jogged to the mound to check on his pitcher along with catcher Chris Coste. The conversation was unusually short.

"That was the best mound visit in the history of baseball right there," said a grinning Coste. "Usually, when "Wedgie' comes out there, it means a pitching change is coming so I didn't know what would happen."

What was said? Here's Coste's transcript:

Wedge: "How ya doing, Timmy? You want to finish this?"

Drew: "Yes."

Wedge: "OK."

"He (Wedge) ran off the mound and I ran back to home plate," Coste said. "I just got chills in my whole body. It was awesome. Best mound visit ever right there."

Drew responded by getting Thompson on a fly ball to right and completed his second two-hitter in three years as a Bison by getting Alcantara on a game-ending fielder's choice.

"Wedgie and I have a lot of respect for each other," Drew said. "He just came to see how I was feeling and to give me a little motivation."

"We're always monitoring the way his arm is working and where the ball is coming across the plate and I felt like that didn't tail off at all," Wedge said. "I wanted to make sure he was solid in all facets and he was."

Drew has been solid for the last month as he's recreated the kind of delivery that helped him go 4-0, 3.08 in his last eight starts for the Bisons last season.

Willis said Drew's slider was particularly nasty at times Sunday.

"From the dugout, you could see a depth of 6-8 inches on the drop of his ball at times," Willis said. "That was big, especially to right-handed hitters. They weren't recognizing the pitch."

Drew struggled in the first inning, going to a full count on all four men he faced. He needed 57 pitches to get through the first three innings but threw just 60 more to get through the last six.

"His slider was always there for us," Coste said. "A lot of times, guys struggle in that first inning. It's a mystery of baseball. But he battled back after that and made a bunch of great pitches. Usually, you might have a bad inning or two but he didn't. It was definitely a fun day to catch."

"You've just got to go out there and battle and that's one of the things I've been able to do," Drew said. "I just wanted to get groundballs and get my team to work.

"I don't dwell on the wins or losses because I believe those wins will come. You can pitch a great game and still lose it. You can pitch a terrible game and win. Baseball can be crazy but I love it. As a starting pitcher, all we're supposed to do is throw good strong innings out of the gate and let the rest of the stuff take care of itself."