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.

Following up on yesterday’s post on how Sen Arlen Specter is the top congressional partier this month, with a dozen fundraisers, here are some other lawmakers who stand out for multiple parties this frenzied month:

Rep. Debbie Halvorson (D, IL), with seven parties;

Sen. Jim DeMint (R, SC), with six parties;

Rep. Thad McCotter (R, MI), with six parties;

Rep. John Larson (D, CT), with six parties;

Sen. Mark Souder (R-IN), with five parties;

Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI), with five parties;

Rep. John Sullivan (R-OK), with five parties; and

and Rep. Mike Coffman (R-CO), with five parties.

What’s most striking, however, is how spread out among lawmakers and PACs the fundraising invitations we’ve collected are. Out of 427 invitations collected as of today, 269 are for different people or PACs. So that’s an average of 1.5 parties per person or organization.