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 in the fourth inning, a major league record-tying six of them driven home by Matt Williams, and the Angels fell 10-4 in front of 20,140 fans.

Indians rookie Jaret Wright (5-2), 21-year-old son of '60s and '70s Angels lefty Clyde Wright, allowed three runs and four hits in seven innings in his return to his native Anaheim.

The Angels remained two games behind the first-place Seattle Mariners in the American League West with 29 to play in the season that ends Sept. 28.

The Angels may be trying to talk Clyde Wright out of retirement to pitch for them.

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.

Which ran the Angels' disabled list to seven players currently and 12 for the season.

``We're lucky we've got the guys we've got in that clubhouse,'' manager Terry Collins said before the game, while Angels players and coaches cheered the Boston Red Sox's 9-5 victory over the Mariners on TV. ``They've handled just about everything that could be thrown at 'em this year.''

The Angels were determined not to curse their luck too loudly.

``It hurts, but every team is going through something like this,'' said catcher Chad Kreuter, who starts in place of injured Todd Greene. ``We'll see what kind of character the team has.''

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

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.

That early, it looked as if three runs might be enough for Watson. He faced the minimum nine batters in the first three innings Wednesday. He had satisfied the much-maligned but ever-useful ``quality start'' criteria - six innings, three earned runs - in seven of his last eight outings.

All of which added up to nothing but an early shower after Williams and the Indians set upon him in the fourth inning.

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.