Over at Politico, Ken Vogel reports on the Red Sox fever that’s sweeping the congressional fundraising circuit next week, taking off from our own Josh Heath’s post here.

Vogel found some events that aren’t in our database, including parties for: Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.), Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI), Rep. Cliff Stearns (R-FL), Sen. Jim Webb (D-VA), and Rep. Richard Neal (D-MA).

And he digs up some interesting stats on how much politicians are paying for all those ball game tickets:

As well as the unique fundraising event works for baseball-loving pols and access-craving lobbyists, who were barred by post-Abramoff reforms from treating lawmakers to games, it works even better for the woebegone Nationals, who have had trouble selling seats at the glistening new stadium that opened last year.

Since the Nationals moved to Washington in 2005, politicians and PACs have paid $259,000 for Nationals tickets, according to Federal Election Commission records.

That’s more than double the $107,000 paid to the next most politically popular team: the New York Yankees. The team that previously held the closest-to-Capitol Hill advantage, the Baltimore Orioles, received $95,000 from federal committees, while the Red Sox pulled in $69,000 at their Fenway Park home in Boston.

Since 2005, federal candidates and committees have spent $718,000 overall for tickets to Major League Baseball games or to rent ballpark facilities, primarily for fundraisers, according to FEC records.

When the Boston Red Sox come to Washington on June 23rd for a friendly interleague series with the Nationals, a half dozen members hailing from the Northeast will be trying to cash in with fundraisers. And another four lawmakers hailing from states as far away as Florida and California are also taking their donors out to the ball game. (Click here to see list.)

Red Sox fans are sure to show up in droves to watch Kevin Youkilis knock one out of Nationals Park, and Reps. John Larson (D-CT), Patrick Kennedy (D-RI), Michael Capuano (D-MA), Joe Courtney (D-CT), Jim Langevin (D-RI), and John Tierney (D-MA), all are all getting in on the game.

Larson is offering a grand slam for his donors. His idea is simple; a $5,000 check made out to “Larson for Congress” will not only pick up donors two tickets to game two, it will land them in the President’s Club for a batting practice viewing.

Reps. Steven Kagen (D-WI), Wally Herger (R-CA), Cliff Stearns (R-FL), and Adam Schiff (D-CA) are also eager to head to the park. Kagen has raised cash at baseball games before (see this invitation from May 2008); now he’s asking for $5,000 to net a buyer four tickets to game three of the upcoming series. Herger’s fundraiser will be his second at Nationals Park for the month of June. Schiff refers to his festivities as an evening “of hot dogs and homeruns” during the three game series. Stearns is raising cash for his leadership PAC, known as “The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism Fund.”

Legislators who missed out on tickets needn’t worry. They can follow Rep. John Tierney’s (MA-6) example and host pre-game celebrations well in advance of the actual series; he still asks for $5,000 for a “host,” and $2,500 from PACs.