A day after the father of the San Francisco Giants fan who was beaten at Dodger Stadium on Opening Day said Bryan Stow is

"stable, and the vital signs ... they're looking good," the Los Angeles Police Department promised a "sea of blue" at the next Dodgers game.

Stow, 42, a paramedic from Santa Cruz, remains in a medically induced coma at Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center after two unidentified men wearing Dodgers clothing knocked him to the ground and kicked him on March 31. Witnesses told police the men were drunk. Stow suffered a severe skull fracture and bad bruising to his brain's frontal lobe. Doctors removed the left side of his skull to relieve pressure on his swollen brain.

"It's been very hard. It's been stressful," David Stow told 710 ESPN Radio's Drew Belzer at a vigil Wednesday for his son. "The rest of my family is here and we support each other. But when we go up to the room and see Bryan, you know, knowing him as we did ... he was an outgoing person, fun-loving, a jokester .. and to see him lying in bed like that ... it's hard. But you know, we think he's going to, he'll pull out of it."

David Stow said that his son's "temperature is down from what it was two days ago. It's a good sign."

Los Angeles officials scrambled to keep the incident from damaging the city's image and to prevent further outbreaks of violence between fans of the archrival Dodgers and Giants.