[0] WILLIAMS GOES ON AN RBI TEAR; INDIANS SLUGGER SHREDS ANGELS : CLEVELAND 10, ANGELS 4.

Byline: Kevin Modesti Daily News Staff Writer

As of today, there's one month left in the regular season.

As they say at other Disney attractions, please keep your hands and feet inside the car. This could be a rough ride.

On a roller-coaster kind of Wednesday night at Anaheim Stadium, the Angels had a chance to gain in the division race, and took a lead on the Cleveland Indians.

Then the Indians scored 10 times off Allen Watson and Shigetoshi Hasegawa in the fourth inning, with Matt Williams knocking in six to tie a major league record, and the Angels fell 10-4 in front of 20,140 fans.

The Angels remained two games behind the American League West-leading Seattle Mariners - who lost earlier in the evening - with 29 to play in the season that ends Sept. 28.

Indians rookie Jaret Wright (5-2), 21-year-old son of old Angels lefty Clyde Wright, allowed three runs and four hits in seven innings - finishing with 5-1/3 hitless - in his return to his native Anaheim.

These days Angels could use a guy like Wright, even if it's Clyde, and he hasn't pitched in 25 years.

This was the night after the devastating news that Chuck Finley's pitching wrist is broken, not sprained, and the winner of 10 straight decisions is lost for the season.

``It hurts, but every team is going through something like this,'' said catcher Chad Kreuter, typical of the Angels, who didn't want to curse their bad luck too loudly. ``We'll see what kind of character the team has.''

It was Character 3, Cleveland 0 before Watson (11-8) allowed his first baserunner.

But the Indians measured Watson in the fourth inning, when they apparently figured out the left-hander tips his pitches.

``One of the guys (Angels) said he heard a couple of the Indians saying something about it on the bases,'' manager Terry Collins said. ``Once in a while he'll tip his pitches (with his delivery). We know about it.''

Now they've got to do something about it.

The Angels led 1-0 after Tony Phillips and Darren Erstad pulled Jaret Wright pitches into the right-field corner for back-to-back doubles in the first inning.

It was the team-high 32nd double, good for a spot in the AL top 10, for Erstad, who also hit his 14th homer of the year in the eighth inning.

Dave Hollins led off the second with a walk, sent to second on an out, and beat the relay to the plate standing up when Gary DiSarcina lined a single to center.

DiSarcina went to second on the throw home and scored on Rickey Henderson's line double up the left-field line.

All of which won Watson nothing but an early shower after Williams and the Indians set upon him in the fourth.

It began with singles by Omar Visquel (on the infield) and Kevin Seitzer (to right) and a called strikeout by Manny Ramirez. Hello, Mr. Williams.

With a 13-game hitting streak coming in, Williams drove a full-count pitch into the construction zone that will be the right-field bleachers. His 28th homer of the year traveled more than 400 feet and made it 3-3.

The Indians started again from scratch. Dave Justice, Sandy Alomar Jr. and Tony Fernandez singled. The Angels got their one break of the inning when Hollins fielded debuting rookie Bruce Aven's bases-loaded grounder at third and threw wide of the plate. Kreuter dove to backhand and umpire Larry Young called Justice out, although replays showed the catcher's foot may have come off the plate.

With the bases still loaded, Marquis Grissom sent Garrett Anderson into the left-field corner, where the ball sailed over his glove and into the seats for a grand slam.

Anderson could have caught the ball and ended the inning in a 3-3 tie if he had gone back another step before jumping. As it was, Watson was still out there as Vizquel came up again and singled to center.