MIAMI –– Time will tell if Kyle Tucker is truly heating up.

But for now, at the very least, he seems to finally be starting to thaw out.

After being stuck in a deep freeze at the plate for much of the last month, Tucker produced an offensive outburst in his second-straight game to lift the Dodgers to a 6-2 win over the Miami Marlins on Friday night, finishing a double shy of the cycle –– in addition to hitting a grand slam –– to help lift the team to its eighth-straight win.

It started with a single in the first inning, allowing Tucker to pick up where he left off after a three-hit performance on Wednesday. He then opened the scoring with a sacrifice fly in the third, giving Blake Snell a lead he wouldn’t relinquish in a 5 ⅔-inning, one-run start.

In the top of the sixth, Tucker took another confident hack, squaring up a hanging first-pitch slider for a triple off the wall in right. He would later score on a bloop single from Will Smith.

And for a finale, his breakout night culminated with the bases loaded an inning later, setting up Tucker for a grand-slam swing –– on a 395-foot drive that landed in the right-field bullpen –– that punctuated perhaps a season-best performance from the previously slumping slugger.

The kind of much-needed sign of life the team had been waiting for.

Up until the last few days, criticism had been reaching a tipping point with the team’s $240 million flop of an offseason signing.

He had gone from bad to worse during a slump through much of August and September, taking an already disappointing debut season to even more confounding lows by batting .116 over his previous 26 games.

But then came Wednesday, when Tucker had three hits, two runs scored, a double and, technically, a home run, albeit off a position player.

“It still counts,” he joked afterward. “I’ll take it.”

Now, following Friday’s 3-for-3, five-RBI performance, Tucker has collected three hits in back-to-back games for the first time all year.

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There’s little saving Tucker’s season-long stats at this point, of course. At the end of play Friday, he was still hitting just .230 on the year with a .701 OPS.

However, the Dodgers’ main impetus for signing the four-time All-Star was to bolster their chances of a World Series three-peat. Despite his struggles, they remain in prime October position. And while all might not be forgiven if he has a big playoff moment, it would certainly help erase the sting of his regular-season frustrations.

Granted, there’s a long way to go before any of that. Two games, against two sub-.500 opponents, offers little more than a simple seed of hope that Tucker can eventually turn things around.

Then again, that’s more than the Dodgers have had for most of this year, while waiting on something from the 29-year-old superstar.

And now, at long last, Tucker has real confidence. Not yet quite hot, but no longer ice cold either.