Taking advantage of last best chance to raise money off D.C. baseball before the August recess, at least five Congressmen have scheduled fundraisers at Nationals Park next week for the teams’ series against the Braves.

Rep. John Conyers Jr., D-Mich., though he planned the July 27 fundraiser at Nationals Park long ago, got lucky, as his $5,000-per-PAC and $1,000-per-person fundraiser lands on a night when the Nationals’ precocious pitcher Stephen Strasburg is on the mound.

The 21-year-old sure can fill up the seats. On nights he starts, Nationals Park attendance increases by more than 15,000. Calls to Rep. Conyers’ office to ask if Strasburg has boosted interest in the fundraiser were not returned.

The only bigger draw than Strasburg this week might be longtime home run king and former Braves slugger Hank Aaron, billed as a special guest at at Rep. John Lewis’s, D-Ga., fundraiser on Wednesday evening. To be named a host, the ask is $5,000; one could get in without the ‘host’ title for $1,500.

Another Georgia lawmaker, Rep. John Barrow, D-Ga., building a war chest for a November challenge, is taking advantage of a visit by his hometown team — perhaps the best in the National League — to attract donors, who are asked to contribute $1,000-per-person and $2,000-per-PAC.

Rep. Joe Baca, D-Calif., is asking for contributions of $1,000 to $5,000 to watch the game with him on Wednesday.

At Thursday’s day game, the series finale with the Braves, Rep. Patrick McHenry, R-N.C., is charging $1,000 for a ticket, $2,500 for a co-sponsorship.

Each lawmaker is charging far more than the most expensive seat in the house: $325 to sit right behind home plate. The cheapest upper deck seats can be had for $10. Luxury suites range from $3,000 for the Jefferson level to $4,200 at the Lincoln level to $7,000 for the Washington level.

If all goes according to schedule, Strasburg will also pitch against Philadelphia on Sunday, Aug. 1.

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.